DESIGN EVOLUTION

A design armchair inspired by colonial furniture, featuring a chrome-plated steel structure and a self-supporting leather-trimmed fabric that forms the seat, backrest and armrests, which widen slightly at the front and taper at the back.

SETTINGS

GALLERY

DESIGNER

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The Cassina edition reproduces the original, introduced in 1930 at the UAM ‒ Union des Artistes Modernes ‒ exhibition during which the authors demonstrated how the furniture displayed could be produced with a wider variety of upholstery. At the time, the outstanding saddlery detail inspired more than one high-fashion collection.

PRODUCTION YEAR

2011

This version of the Fauteuil à dossier basculant debuted at the first French Union of Modern Artists exhibition in 1930 and demonstrated how the furniture, displayed the previous year at the Salon d’Automne [Autumn Salon], could be produced with a greater variety of upholstery options. In this case, a saddlery detail that in the 1930s had already inspired many high-fashion collections.

Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret Charlotte Perriand

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In 1922, Le Corbusier began working in the new rue de Sèvres, Paris, atelier with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret with whom he shared research projects and design criteria in a profound and life-long professional relationship. In October 1927, the pair decided to draw on the contribution of a young architect who had already begun to establish a reputation on the architectural scene of the time: Charlotte Perriand. Their collaboration lasted through to 1937 and was extremely fruitful, especially in the field of furniture design.

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PRODUCT CARE

PRODUCT SHEET

The Fauteuil dossier basculant - UAM armchair further demonstrates the design philosophy of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand for whom furniture is the result of a growth process that leads the objects to respond more precisely and immediately to the homes in which they are placed.