The Swiss architect, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (1887-1965), known as "Le Corbusier", was a modern classicist, like Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius with whom he had worked in the Berlin architectural office. Le Corbusier initiated a reappraisal of bentwood furniture through his work as an interior designer in the 1920's. He would place bentwood chairs, designed in the second half of the nineteenth century, in modernist architectural settings, juxtaposing the elegant curves of bent wood with the unrelenting angularity of his residential interiors. The idea of some of the chair selections in anything other than a cafe or bar would have been unthinkable before this date. One of the Le Corbusier's progressive interior schemes was exhibited in the Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau at the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes' in 1925, the exhibition from which the term "Art Deco" was coined. This was the style that superseded Art Nouveau and drew its decorative inspiration from a wide variety of sources.

Le Corbusier went on to design a range of tubular steel furniture that was manufactured by Thonet. His Group Comfort armchair was con-designed with is cousin Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand in 1928 for a french villa. The proportions of this armchair and its heavily stuffed upholstery were influenced by Art Deco, yet it achieves a sense of modernity through its use of tubular steel frame. It was first exhibited, to much acclaim, at the Salon d'Automne, Paris in 1929 together with the Basculant chair and the Model No. B306 chaise lounge, also designed in 1928.

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