Capitale Sociale € 15.975.422,00 REA N. 1311974 CCIAA di Monza e Brianza Please note, the content you want is not available for your country. A preview of selected lots from sales around the worldLaffanour Galerie Downtown found on MasterArt.com - Home to the finest art on the webCassina have reissued Charlotte Perriand‘s Nuage modular system of sideboards and bookcases originally designed back in the 1950’s. c. 1968, pine, enameled steel. Née en 1903 à Paris, Charlotte Perriand étudie à l’Ecole de l’Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs. By way of example, worthy of mention are the furnishings produced using traditional bamboo processing techniques, capable of enhancing the new forms already experimented using steel-tubing.After her work as a professional, she concentrates on a series of original and balanced productions, commissioned by top-level authorities and leading companies of the calibre of Air France, and by a number of foreign organizations, authenticating the fame she had by now gained on the international scene.The distinguishing factor of Charlotte Perriand’s personality is a sincere loyalty to the principles of humane and innovative rationalism, preserved intact in her projects, on which she worked with such passion, also in readiness for their revival in the “Cassina I Maestri” collection. Le plan de la cuisine est un carré de 4,80 m, permettant à chacun d’avoir à portée de main tous les équipements en pivotant simplement sur soi-même. With the outbreak of war, Perriand collaborated with the ‘constructeur’ Leaving Marseilles on one of the final ships to depart before the arrival of the Nazis, she made safe passage to Tokyo, but the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor nixed her plans to return to France via America, and she was exiled in Indochina (now Vietnam). 35 w × 29 d × 26 h in.
Oliver Wainwright. Vue de la salle de séjour sur la cuisine. This model is with 13 slats of wood. All images courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York, and Laffanour / Galerie Downtown, Paris. Charlotte Perriand aiguise son approche de l’objet usuel, de l’art d’habiter et de l’équipement d’une habitation lors de voyages au Brésil, en Indochine et surtout au Japon, pays qui la convie par contrat en 1940, par le biais de l’architecte Junzo Sakakura, comme conseillère de l’art industriel auprès du Ministère impérial du commerce et de l’industrie. *We will never sell or rent your information. Charlotte, this is the image of the beautiful creation, of the work that has been given thought, she is also a heck of a good woman who wrestles with works and days, takes them head on and resolves them calmly because she applies her realistic instinct to them, her feeling for order, her love of things. Connected to the Avant-Garde movements of the 1930s, a founder member of the Union des Artistes, connected also to Fernand Léger and more so to Jean Prouvé from 1939, Charlotte Perriand was with Le Corbusier the precursor of interior design.If the collaboration over about ten years with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret made her famous, it was especially due to furniture signed by all three that was both modernist and innovative, using materials such as chrome steel. Fascinated with Japanese design, materials and techniques, she was strongly influenced by Kakuzo Okakura’s Back in France after the war ended, she also began to experiment with new, hybrid, low-cost materials such as Formica and plywood.Commercially successful, Perriand worked on a series of notable public-facing buildings, all marked by a requirement that they could be built quickly, efficiently and durably. During her long stay in the Far East (‘40-‘46), she reveals her artistic talent to the full, through a reinterpretation of the reality of life to echo both tradition and modernity. We imagine her on a construction site, and the companion seduced by so much profession: “she is in her element, Charlotte”“In front of a beautiful blank page, I would like to be twenty years old...” Charlotte Perriand closed the dialogue with herself in this way, which, through the pages of this book, and in the exhibition of her work at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, reinstates her story for us.