Charlotte Perriand

A French architect and designer, Charlotte PERRIAND was born on 24 October 1903 in Paris and graduated from the Union centrale des arts décoratifs in 1925. Charlotte PERRIAND made a name for herself at the age of 24 with her “Bar sous le toit”, comprising pedestal tables, low stools and barstools with cruciform or circular legs and a bench, made of chromed steel, anodised aluminium and glass, created for her apartment-studio in the Place Saint-Sulpice. On the advice of Robert Mallet-Stevens, Marie-Laure and Charles, viscount de Noailles, acquired a folding game table for their villa in Hyères, and noticed by the two architects, it began a collaboration that lasted ten years (1927-1937) with Pierre Jeanneret and the latter's cousin, Le Corbusier, who integrated it into the team of his agency, entrusting it with the responsibility of “equipping the home. The “Ospite extensible table” in chromed steel, lacquered wood and scrolling rubber sheet, the “LC8 swivel stool”, the “LC7 swivel seat” in chromed steel and leather, and the pedestal table in chromed steel and circular glass top were exhibited at the 1928 Salon des artistes décorateurs. In 1929-1930, Charlotte PERRIAND designed a studio-bar for the private mansion of Jean and Joël Martel, rue Mallet-Stevens in Paris, completed by Robert Mallet-Stevens in 1927 and also decorated from 1928 on by Francis Jourdain, as well as a bathroom chair in chromed steel and terry cloth. Along with René Herbst, Pierre Chareau and Eileen Gray, she was one of the founding members of the UAM (Union des Artistes Modernes) in 1929, presided over by Mallet-Stevens.Charlotte PERRIAND also maintained close ties with Jean Prouvé's workshops in Nancy, as well as with the architects Paul Nelson and the Lagneau-Weill-Dimitrijevic (LWD) workshop. In 1931-1933, Charlotte PERRIAND participated with Le Corbusier's agency in the design of the Cité-refuge de l'Armée du salut and the Pavillon suisse de la Cité universitaire, in Paris.from the 1940s onwards, her style was strongly influenced by a long stay in the Far East, and in particular in Japan from 1940 to 1942, where she held the position of advisor for industrial art at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. Her influence on Japanese design can be seen after the Second World War in the work of Sōri Yanagi, Daisaku Choh and Kazuo Shinohara.Charlotte Perriand participated, between 1967 and 1986, in the design of the Les Arcs ski resort in Savoie, both in its architecture and in the interior fittings.In 1993, she created the UNESCO Tea Room, inspired by Japanese tea pavilions.Cassina has been reissuing Charlotte Perriand furniture since 2004.