Charlotte Perriand (1903)

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  CHARLOTTE PERRIAND (1903-1999) AND JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)

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  CHARLOTTE PERRIAND

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  CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, 1903-1999

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Charlotte Perriand Biography

(b Paris, 24 Oct 1903). French designer. She studied under the designer Henri Rapin at the Ecole Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (1920–25) in Paris and independently attended decorative arts courses with Paul Follot and Maurice Dufrène (1876–1955). According to Perriand, Le Corbusier’s books Vers une architecture (1923) and L’Art décoratif d’aujourd’hui (1925) encouraged her to search for a style relevant to the ‘machine age’. Her roof-top bar (‘Bar sous le toit’), exhibited in 1927 by the Société des Artistes Décorateurs, was made of sheet-metal, tubular steel and aluminium. Perriand’s ability to deal with modern materials and technology led Le Corbusier to employ her. From 1927 to 1937 she expanded the ideas on domestic interior design introduced in his writings and in the Pavillon de L’Esprit Nouveau at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes of 1925 (see LE CORBUSIER). Perriand also oversaw the production of prototypes for the elegant tubular-steel furniture designed by the studio between 1928 and 1930: the ‘siège tournant’, ‘casiers métalliques’, ‘table extensible’, chaise-longue, ‘chaise à dos basculant’ and ‘grand confort’. From 1928 she organized numerous presentations of the studio’s furniture for design exhibitions. She supervised the installation of interior fittings for Le Corbusier’s Villa La Roche, his Pavillon Suisse and his Cité de Refuge (Salvation Army hostel), all in Paris, in 1928, 1930–32 and 1932 respectively.

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