Description
- A sweeping evaluate of Charlotte Perriand’s profession, exploring the interrelation of artwork, structure, and layout within the paintings of this mythical twentieth century modernist
- Includes essays via her daughter, Pernette Perriand, and via Jacques Barsac, creator of the Charlotte Perriand Catalogue Raisonné
- Accompanies a landmark exhibition on the Louis Vuitton Basis from 2 October, 2019 to 24 February, 2020 on the twentieth anniversary of Perriand’s death
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was once a pioneer of brand new layout in France all the way through the 20 th century. Her avant-garde imaginative and prescient was once expressed in colour, natural paperwork, and streamlined capability, components that are nonetheless on the center of latest layout these days. Her furniture had been made from aluminum, rubber, chrome, leather-based, bamboo, and in particular, picket; their attraction is undying. This lavishly illustrated e-book, accompanying a tremendous retrospective on the Louis Vuitton Basis in Paris, explores how a lot in the forefront she was once in her use of fabrics, in her social and political consciousness, and in her collaborations with artists, architects, and different designers. The display items a world imaginative and prescient of her creativity, skill, and inventiveness, exploring her dedication to ladies and to a humanist layout ethos that took into consideration the center and dealing categories with an emphasis on rationalizing prices and area. This e-book, with essays via a world roster of artwork, structure, and layout historians, gives a plurality of views and explores Perriand’s inventive legacy during the twentieth century and past.
