This stunning book presents Charlotte Perriand's photographic
achievement in its entirety, offering new and valuable insights
into the work of this important designer. Charlotte Perriand
(1903-1999) was one of the most innovative furniture and interior
designers of the twentieth century, long renowned for the
tubular-steel chairs she created with le Corbusier. Her career
spanned nearly seventy-five years and included work in her native
France as well as in Africa, South America, Asia, and Europe, and
today her designs are highly collectable. Recently, several hundred
photographic negatives were uncovered in her archives, revealing
for the first time the scope of her work as a photographer. In the
late 1920s, French interior and furniture designer Charlotte
Perriand was at the cusp of her career, just beginning her work as
an architect, designer, town planner, and political militant.
Starting in 1927, she turned to photography, which was to play a
pivotal role in her development as a designer through the
pioneering years of the modern movement. Her photographic venture
ended in Japan in 1941, when the hope of a better world was
shattered by World War II. For Charlotte Perriand, photography was
a machine for thinking, taking notes, and stirring emotions, but it
was also an instrument of political engagement. Today, her
photographs are a revelation, offering unseen glimpses into her
creative process and intellectual development. Her photographs
express the important themes and questions explored by modern
artists of the day, and are part of the vast stream of avant-garde
movements in which painters, architects, and photographers - and
sometimes all three combined - worked together in a common spirit.
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