Designer: Le Corbusier (1929)
Le Corbusier was faithful to an overall philosophy wherein proportion in architecture and design had to be based upon the proportions of the human body. Consequently, the narrow version of the Grand Confort was seen as the “male” chair since a man usually sits upreght with his legs slightly parted. The wider version, instead, was the “female” chair. The extra width reflected the tendency of a woman to sit with her legs folded under her. The Grand Confort was first put into production in 1959 by Mrs. Heidi Weber of Zurich. Mrs. Weber, with the approval of Le Corbusier, changed the appearance of the chair. She removed spring mechanism and used construction methods which permitted the frame to be chromed. She gave the cushions a more formal, tailored look .