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As early as 1934 Charlotte Perriand began to reflect on the
architectural aspects of leisure activities for all, but it was
with Les Arcs, her greatest work, that she completed her reflection
on the art of living in the mountains. Alongside the developer
Roger Godino, Charlotte Perriand displayed all the facets of her
immense talent: design, urban planning, but also bioclimatic
architecture, of which she was a pioneer. She had to deal with
financial and time constraints in order to design most of the Arc
1600 and 1800. Thanks to her perseverance and growing
inventiveness, her integration of architecture into the sites, her
innovative and human approach to traffic, and the life she breathes
into the resort, especially on the rooftops, she has made it a
friendly place, in harmony with the environment. Thus, she designs
the interior architecture of more than 4,500 homes, 25,000 beds,
for an annual flow of more than one million people. Her wish to
combine the art of living in the mountains with housing for the
greatest number of people has been largely realised. Text in
French.
As early as 1934 Charlotte Perriand began to reflect on the
architectural aspects of leisure activities for all, but it was
with Les Arcs, her greatest work, that she completed her reflection
on the art of living in the mountains. Alongside the developer
Roger Godino, Charlotte Perriand displayed all the facets of her
immense talent: design, urban planning, but also bioclimatic
architecture, of which she was a pioneer. She had to deal with
financial and time constraints in order to design most of the Arc
1600 and 1800. Thanks to her perseverance and growing
inventiveness, her integration of architecture into the sites, her
innovative and human approach to traffic, and the life she breathes
into the resort, especially on the rooftops, she has made it a
friendly place, in harmony with the environment. Thus, she designs
the interior architecture of more than 4,500 homes, 25,000 beds,
for an annual flow of more than one million people. Her wish to
combine the art of living in the mountains with housing for the
greatest number of people has been largely realised.
Charlotte Perriand (1903-99) is undoubtedly one of the most
significant figures in 20th-century interior design. She was one of
the pioneers in introducing the metal tube as building material for
furniture, paving the way for machine age aesthetic in interiors in
the 1920s and 1930s. Together with Le Corbusier and Pierre
Jeanneret she created a number of iconic classics, such as the
chaise-longue LC4, the armchair LC2, or the sling chair LC1. This
second part of the new three-volume monograph on Perriand covers
the period 1940-55 with her extensive stays in Japan 1942-42 and
1953-55, and with her designs for the reconstruction in France
after WW II. It also investigates extensively her collaboration
with Jean Prouve 1952-55. Moreover, the new volume looks at her
work together with with Jeanneret and again also Le Corbusier
during the 1950s, and it documents Perriand's involvement and role
in founding the Useful Forms movement in 1949. The book features
again an abundance of images and documents, mostly in colour and
many of them previously unpublished. Charlotte Perriand: Complete
Works is the authoritative source on this key figure of
20th-century interior design for scholars, dealers, and collectors.
Each of the three lavishly illustrated volumes is completed by
annotations, index, and bibliography.
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.
The concluding fourth volume of this definitive monograph on
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) covers the last three decades of her
long career. At the core is the Les Arcs skiing resort in the
French Alps, where Perriand played a key role in the project
development. A pioneer of bioclimatic architecture, she oversaw the
architectural and urban design of Arc 1600 and Arc 1800 and created
the interiors and entire outfitting down to cutlery and china for
the more than 4,500 apartments. Les Arcs, an extraordinary
undertaking both in sheer size and the extent of Perriand's
contribution, marks the culmination of her research on alpine
housing in unison with nature. The book also features a number of
projects - housing and art spaces - between Paris and Tokyo, in
which she aimed once more to push the borders of a specific modern,
cultivated way of living. It also offers a comprehensive appraisal
of seven decades' work that manifests the creative force and vision
of this extraordinary woman, one of the most eminent protagonists
of modern architecture and design. Also available: Charlotte
Perriand Volume 1, 1903-1940 ISBN 9783858817464 Charlotte Perriand
Volume 2, 1940-1955 ISBN 9783858817471 Charlotte Perriand Volume 3,
1956-1968 ISBN 9783858817488
Charlotte Perriand is one of the foremost figures in
twentieth-century interior design. Together with her collaborators
Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier, she created many pieces of
furniture we now consider classics, including the instantly
recognisable LC4 chaise. Her pioneering work with metal was
particularly instrumental in paving the way for the machine-age
aesthetic popular throughout the 1920s and '30s. The third volume
in a four-part series, this lavish book covers the years between
1956 and 1968. During this period, Perriand established a
relationship with the Galerie Steph Simon, which exhibited and
published some of her most iconic work, as well as that of renowned
contemporaries Serge Mouille, Georges Jouve, and Jean Prouve.
Perriand also completed several high-profile projects throughout
the 1960s, most of which have been published here for the first
time. These include comprehensive designs for Air France's offices
around the world and the renovation of the Palais des Nations,
where many of her designs for furniture and the assembly halls she
decorated remain in use and relatively unchanged to this day. This
new volume also documents her intimate, yet little known, links to
Brazil. Covering key moments in Perriand's personal life, as well
as the iconic styles she developed, this third volume in the series
comes complete with annotations and a bibliography for further
research.
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