Charlotte Perriand
Charlotte Perriand ( born October 24, 1903 in Paris, † 27 October 1999) was a French architect and designer.
Perriand studied from 1921 to 1925 interior architecture at the run by Henri Rapin Arts School Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. After the end of her studies, she breaks with the traditional arts and begins to design furniture. Stir their fully constructed of nickel-plated copper and anodized aluminum " Bar sous le toit " ( " bar under the roof "), which she designed for her own studio and was exhibited at the exhibition Salon d'Automne in 1927. In the same year, at the age of 24 years, began her ten -year-long collaboration on all furniture and interior design projects in the studio of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret 35 At the same time, Charlotte Perriand began in Paris on rue de Sèvres and the Photography to devote. In March 1937, she left the studio Le Corbusier - Jeanneret, but also worked intensively on individual projects after the two with, such as at the Unité d' Habitation of the Interior in Marseille ( 1947-1950 ).
Political commitment
1931 begins Charlotte Perriand to become politically active and joins the Communist Party -affiliated Association des Artistes et Écrivains révolutionnaires ( AEAR ) at. Members are, inter alia, André Gide and André Malraux. Trips get to Germany, the Soviet Union and to Greece, where they at the Congress of the Association of Architects CIAM participates in 1933. It belonged in 1937 to prepare for group of CIAM congress in Paris. In the same year she designed with Fernand Leger the graphical presentation of the agrarian program of the French Popular Front government. In response to the Hitler -Stalin pact she leaves in 1939, the French Communist Party.
Stay in Asia
1940 Charlotte Perriand traveled at the invitation of the Japanese Ministry of Trade and Industry in Japan. Your stay has a significant influence on the development of Japanese design. Your assistant in Japan was the designer Sori Yanagi. But Perriand's designs changed now, and took impact of the Japanese craft on. They also used, for example bamboo for their furniture. She organized exhibitions and got jobs in Indochina, where she coordinates 1943 to 1946 various activities for the training of artisans and worked as an architect.
In 1946 she returned to Paris and worked again with Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Jean Prouvé, in whose workshop in Nancy furniture designs were realized. In addition to private clients, the distribution of furniture on the Paris Galerie Steph Simon ( 1956 ), it was mainly projects for public institutions and companies such as Air France, which gave her furniture and equipment in order. Many projects such as the establishment of 2,000 student apartments in Antony ( Hauts -de- Seine) in Paris ( with Jean Prouvé ) can also recognize their social commitment. In the late 1960s she participated in the design of hotels and apartments in the French Alps, known under the name, Les Arcs,
Effect
Today, their furniture is mainly seen as a high-quality collection items. Since it does not concern products in the traditional sense, which were made by furniture manufacturers in large quantities, but small series objects, which were often designed for specific architectural projects, there is a market for Perriand furniture has developed. A bookshelf of "Type Plots" from the collection of Serge Mouille and Gin achieved at Artcurial auction house on 15 May 2012 a retail value of around 286,000 euros. Tables and small racks of Charlotte Perriand usually achieve at least five figures at auction totals. In one of the few German publications (through their notebooks from his time with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret ) there is an article entitled " Between luxury and Akese ", which outlines the bandwidth of the creation of Perriand: On the one hand stands with the helped create by their LC furniture for an expensive contemporary interior style, but their intentions were aimed at improving the living conditions of broad layers.
In recent years, several exhibitions have been dedicated to the life and work of Charlotte Perriand, many book publications document the work of one of the most important figures of modern innovation.
In addition to furniture which designed with Charlotte Perriand Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, the Italian manufacturer Cassina has launched in recent years, a number of their furniture designs again. Her ( unrealized during his lifetime ) project a mountain hut made of aluminum and wood has realized Cassina.
Work ( a selection)
Architecture
- Own chalet in Méribel, France, 1960
- Les Arcs, Bourg -Saint -Maurice, France, 1968-1978
Interior Design
- Reorganization meeting rooms United Nations, Geneva 1957-1970
- Air France- Office, London, 1957
- Air France office, Tokyo and Paris, Rue Scribe, 1959
Furniture
- " Ospite " infinitely extendable table with movable blades, 1927 (2009 reprint )
- " Riflesso " shelving system with reflective metal sliding doors, 1939 (1999 reprint )
- "Tokyo ", deck made from bamboo, 1940 ( reprinted 2011) as a new interpretation of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and her 1928 designed steel deck
- " Ombra ", armchair, 1953 (1999 reprint )
- " Ombra ", stackable chair 1954 (2009 reprint )
- " Nuage ", Bibliothèque, Regal 1957 (2012 reprint )
- " Ventaglio " wooden table with parallel and radially arranged triangular forms, 1972 (2004 reprint )
- " Refuge Tonnau " (escape hut for hikers, with Pierre Jeanneret ), 2012 first realized in 1938.