Charlotte Perriand - New Now: The Katayama Collection New York Tuesday, September 19, 2017 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Gallery – SIGN, Tokyo
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, The Encyclopedia of Masamichi Katayama "Life is hard... Let's go shopping.", April 8 - June 25, 2017, cat. no. 383, p. 166 (illustrated)

  • Literature

    Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand Un art d’habiter 1903-1959, Paris, 2005, pp. 400, 405, 420-22, 440 for similar examples
    Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works Volume 2, 1940-1955, Paris, 2015, pp. 347, 411, 451, 468-70 for similar examples

  • Artist Biography

    Charlotte Perriand

    French • 1903 - 1999

    Trailblazer Charlotte Perriand burst onto the French design scene in her early 20s, seemingly undeterred by obstacles in an era when even the progressive Bauhaus school of design barred women from architecture and furniture design courses. She studied under Maurice Dufrêne at the École de l'Union Centrale des art Décoratifs, entering into a competition at the 1925 Expo des Arts Décoratifs by age 22 and gaining critical acclaim for her exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in 1927.

    On the heels of this success, that same year she joined the Paris design studio of Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret. For ten years the three collaborated on "equipment for living," such as the iconic tubular steel B306 Chaise Longue (1928). After World War II, Perriand joined forces with Jean Prouvé to create modernist furniture that combined the precise lines of Prouvé's bent steel with the soft, round edges and warmth of natural wood.

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Wall-mounted shelf

oak-veneered wood and painted steel
12 1/4 x 74 7/8 x 9 in. (31.1 x 190.2 x 22.9 cm.)
Circa 1960. Manufactured by Négroni and Métal Mueble, France.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $27,500

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New Now: The Katayama Collection

New York Auction 19 September 2017