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First conceived in 1954, the Tokyo bench remains one of Charlotte Perriand’s most versatile designs. Rendered in ash, the present model stands on three ovoid legs. Long rectangular slats form the seat of the bench, imbuing the piece with its impressive lateral character while also permitting the work to extend beyond its physical boundaries and create shadows on the floor underneath it.
Perriand initially devised the bench for the home of her husband Jacques Martin, who in 1951 was named Director of Air France Regional Representation in Japan. This appointment afforded Perriand the opportunity to return to Japan over a decade after her employment by the Imperial Ministry of Commerce as an advisor for industrial art. During this particular sojourn, Perriand designed the Air France office furnishings in the recently completed Nikkatsu Building (Marunouchi District, Tokyo) and the interior of Martin’s Akasaka District home, which also served as a site for special Air France events. For the Akasaka residence, Perriand produced two categories of furniture: design for daily or family life and design for special occasions. The Tokyo Bench belonged to the latter category and was used for both seating and display purposes; Perriand placed cushions on the bench, which were complemented by a sculpture or potted plant resting on the uncovered slats.
Installation photo from the Proposal for a Synthesis of the Arts exhibition, 1955. Perriand exhibited two Tokyo benches in her 1955 exhibition Proposal for a Synthesis of the Arts at the Takashimaya department store (Nihonbashi District, Tokyo). The bench soon gained recognition in France when Galerie Steph Simon began to issue it in 1956. Indeed, one of its buyers included the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. With its capacity to fulfill a variety of functions including lounging, entertaining, and display, the Tokyo bench illuminates Perriand’s mastery of functional design for not only quotidian use, but for important occasions, too.
來源
現藏者可能約於1991年從紐約 DeLorenzo 1950 畫廊購入拍品
文學
Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Un Art d'Habiter, Paris, 2005, p. 430
Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works Volume 2, 1940-1955, Paris, 2015, pp. 442, 468-470, 473 for a longer version藝術家簡介
夏洛特．貝里安
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.
美國東岸私人收藏
50
《「東京」長椅》
約1956年作
梣木
10 3/4 x 88 7/8 x 29 1/8 英吋 (27.3 x 225.7 x 74 公分)
此作品由法國巴黎 Steph Simon 畫廊發行。
估價
$20,000 - 30,000
成交價$50,400
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紐約拍賣2021年12月7日
