The Russian revolution had happened recently; revolutions were still romantic. After all, she was single-minded enough to transcend the prejudices women faced in a predominantly male-dominated world. For Le Corbusier’s L’Unité d’Habitation apartment block in Marseille, completed the same year, she designed open-plan interiors to ensure that women didn’t feel trapped in the kitchen. No money from the licence fee was used to create this website. Tome 4. There are many things that can be said about Perriand (1903-99) – that she was the principal author of some of the 20th century’s most memorable pieces of furniture, that she could be as inventive with traditional materials such as bamboo as she was with tubular steel, that she could turn her unique hand and eye to furniture, to photographs, to impassioned political photomontages, to a 30,000-bed ski resort.

Paintings are in their natural habitat in an art gallery, whereas furniture is not. In 1936, she created her monumental, polemical photocollage, La Grande Misère de Paris, reminiscent of Russian photomontage, which denounced unsanitary living conditions for many Parisians.Detail of La Grande Misere de Paris, 1936, a collage created by Perriand and collaborators (Credit: Adagp, Paris 2019)The Fondation has presented Perriand’s prolific output chronologically in a show occupying four floors.

It included a tapestry by Le Corbusier, with whom she renewed contact in the 1950s. From the 1930s onwards, she increasingly looked to nature for inspiration, sparked perhaps by childhood memories of holidays spent in Savoie and her love of sport, especially skiing. – Charlotte Perriand presented several collapsible or combinatory seats. She is lying on the adjustable chaise longue of 1928, the gracefully revolutionary work of steel, chrome, rubber and fabric that she designed along with Le Corbusier and his cousin and colleague Pierre Jeanneret. Pourtant, son nom reste encore méconnu, laissant place à beaucoup de personnalités masculines. It allows for a fully immersive experience thanks to complete interiors reconstructed for the first time, beginning with Bar Under the Roof, Interior Design of a Dwelling and House of a Young Man, which visitors can explore. Charlotte Perriand lounges on the chaise longue basculante, 1929 (Credit: FLC/ Adagp, Paris 2019) However, Perriand was no dyed-in-the-wool … Figure majeure de l’histoire de la modernité, liée aux avant-gardes européenne, japonaise et brésilienne, elle a contribué à mettre les avancées modernes au service du plus grand nombre. She was a habitué of Paris’s Café de Flore, consorting with Picasso and her neighbour Léger, whom she met in 1930.”In 1937, Perriand stopped working with Le Corbusier. ‘Charlotte became highly politicised in the 30s, as did many intellectuals united against the rise of fascism. She also deployed traditional Japanese materials such as bamboo in her own work. Enter the Refuge Tonneau, a futuristic space shuttle-mountain shelter that can be visited for the first time thanks to Cassina’s authentic reconstructionCassina has developed the first full reconstruction of the Refuge Tonneau designed by Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret in 1938 in its space at the Design Village during the Salone del Mobile 1938 - 2012. But it still expresses her fundamental belief – that life, and design, is about “the cultivation of happiness”. Her face turned partly away, she happens not to be smiling in what is a less spontaneous shot than others of her. Her creative life meant everything to her.

Dernier volet d’une série d’ouvrages consacrés à la vie de Charlotte Perriand, le volume 4 de son Oeuvre Complète retrace largement la naissance des stations de ski des Arcs, revient sur son activité d’enseignante, et présente plusieurs de ses projets à Paris et à Tokyo. Inside Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret’s mountain refuge. Reinforcing their modernity is a photograph taken at the time, showing Perriand recumbent on the chaise longue, face enigmatically turned away from the camera, her androgynous Eton crop and her design for a necklace fashioned from ballbearings only just visible.But if Paris-born Perriand’s identity has been largely eclipsed by her association with Le Corbusier, a major new exhibition, The chaise longue basculante, version 1, 1928 was designed by Perriand, Corbusier and Jeanneret (Credit: Adagp, Paris, 2019)Perriand was primarily introduced to modernist ideas by Le Corbusier’s book, Vers une Architecture (Toward an Architecture), his influential call to arms for unadorned, functionalist architecture.

What are they?’”. Charlotte Perriand was born on 24 October 1903 in Paris. Now, in an age when chairs and tables like hers are prized auction room items, an exhibition like this turns everyday objects into art.There is, of course, not much to be done about the fact that historic items of furniture can no longer be sat upon, and to their credit the Louis Vuitton Foundation does offer some replica Perriands on which to rest, but it requires a small imaginative effort to recall that the exhibits were made to be felt as well as seen. She wanted to bring art into everyday life, to which end she staged exhibitions in which paintings were shown alongside ordinary objects.