After more than thirty years of Le Corbusier's inactivity in furniture design, his attention was again brought to focus on some unsolved problems of production by Heidi Weber in 1958. During his lifetime, Le Corbusier licenced Heidi Weber with two contracts in 1959 and 1963 for the production and sales of four different chairs designs, which he officially declared as his own invention.

Ms. Weber produced the four models during 1958-1965 in her own small factory in Zurich under the supervision of Le Corbusier. Heidi Weber sublicenced the Italian company "Cassina" in 1964 first for Italy and in 1965 for Europe and finally in 1966 for worldwide production and sales.

In 1927 Le Corbusier designed four chairs ONLY. A few prototypes where produced and shown for the first time 1929 in Paris at the "Salon d'automne". Compared to other type furniture of the same period, the cubic "fauteuil grand confort" and the chair with adjustable back, as well as the "chaise longue", the functionally unmatched easy chair, remain among the most definitive constructions ever achieved in tubular steel furniture.

Le Corbusier did not wish to see his furniture designs to be considered as works of art but more as useful objects to sit on, mass produced in the new machine-age and to be accessible for the public at large.

LC 101: "Fauteuil grand comfort" original from the Heidi Weber Production	LC 102: "Fauteuil grand comfort" original from the Heidi Weber Production
LC 103: Fauteuil with adjustible back original from the Heidi Weber Production	LC 104: "Chaise-longue" original from the Heidi Weber Production

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