50th Anniversary Revamped Cassina LC Collection.

Throughout 2015, Cult and Cassina will celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the most significant collections of contemporary design, the LC Collection, along with the commemoration of the 50 years since Le Corbusier passed away. To mark the anniversary, Cassina launches the LC50 collection featuring sustainable materials and novel colour schemes.

Together with the Corbusier Foundation in Paris, Cassina has dug down and researched old archives, memoirs and sketches dating back to 1920s of Le Corbusier and his co-designers Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand – the golden trio behind the iconic LC collection that Cassina has the sole authority to produce and distribute today.

Cassina has employed more sustainable materials for its frames in the LC50 collection; a trivalent chromium plating process that is a safe and eco-friendly alternative to hexavalent chromium thanks to lower chromium concentration levels, less air emissions and toxic waste. The LC50 collection’s leathers are also totally organic and Cassina introduces a new microfiber fabric produced without solvent or metal based dyes.

In addition to new material upgrades, Cassina presents a revised colour palette for the LC collection’s frames whose original nuances were selected by Charlotte Perriand in 1978. The burgundy and ochre frames are replaced by sophisticated brown, ivory and mud tones, the light blue and green shades are modified slightly, while the grey remain the same. The basalt frame is now only available for the Villa Church models, as is the matt black for the LC4 chaiselongue frame which is only avialable in the chrome version.

A final addition to the collection is an elegantly crafted headrest strap for the LC4 chaise-longue, following the example of the LC4 CP, an homage by Cassina to Charlotte Perriand on the occasion of the 2014 Louis Vuitton Icônes Collection.

[Images courtesy of Cassina.]