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{Infobox furniture }} Grand Confort is a cube-shaped high armchair, whose leather cushions are held in a chrome-plated steel corset. It was designed as a modernist response to the traditional club chair in 1928 by a team of three: Le Corbusier; his cousin and colleague Pierre Jeanneret; and Charlotte Perriand. The LC-2 and LC-3 were referred as Cusion Baskets by Le Corbusier. They are more colloquially referred to as the  and  due to their respective sizes.
 * name     = Grand Confort
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 * caption  = Grand Confort
 * designer = Le Corbusier
 * date     = 1928–1930
 * materials = Chrome on steel frame, leather cushions filled with PU-foam
 * style    = Modernist
 * soldby   = Cassina S.p.A.
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 * width    =
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Production Methods
The LC-2 ("Petit Modèle") was first manufactured in 1928 by Heidi Weber in Zürich. Heidi Weber, a gallery-owner in Zurich, launched a collection containing the Grand Confort chair and grand et petit modèle in Switzerland in 1959. These pieces were built by local artisans and were named “le corbusier sitzmöbel/ sièges/chairs”. Distribution of these pieces were limited and each model bore the initials “LC”. Cassina signed the first exclusive licensing agreement covering the edition rightsfor the furniture designed by Le Corbusier,Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand in 1964.

The re-edition of the chair began with the LC1, LC2, LC3 and LC4 models, which went into production in September 1965. Other pieces were added later - such as, the wooden elements designed by Le Corbusier for the LC Collection in 2010 and the LC outdoor collection was added in 2011.

Series
These chairs have become most famous:


 * LC-1 - Originally titled Basculant, ''Fauteuil Grand Confort
 * LC-2 - Petit Modèle: With a shape close to a cube, it is more narrow but has a higher seat and back. It is a small model of comfort sofa.
 * LC-3 - Fauteuil grand confort, grand modèle: Wider and lower to the ground, it is a large model of comfort sofa.

In popular culture
The LC-2 (and similar LC-3) have been featured in a variety of media, notably the Maxell "blown away" advertisement. At the 2010 Apple event, the then CEO Steve Jobs used a classic LC-3 chair while introducing the iPad.

They are a permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art. MoMa's collection includes the Easy Chair, also known as Fauteuil Grand Confort, originally a part of Heidi Weber's collection in Zürich.

In the modern day BBC adaptation of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock), Sherlock Holmes sits in a LC-3, while Dr. Watson sits in a traditional Club chair.