Charlotte Perriand - Design London Tuesday, September 20, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Private collection, France

  • Literature

    Marie Laure Jousset, Charlotte Perriand, exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2005, p. 109
    Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand Complete Works, volume 2, 1940-1955, Paris, 2015, pp. 155, 157-58, pp. 166, 171 for a L’Equipement de la Maison prospectus, pp. 188, 201, 223, 250, p. 311 for a B.C.B. prospectus

  • 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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Pair of armchairs, model no. 21, from 'L’Equipement de la Maison' series, Grenoble

designed 1935, produced circa 1946-1968
Ashwood, straw.
Each: 79.8 x 56 x 64.6 cm (31 3/8 x 22 x 25 3/8 in.)
Manufactured by L’Equipement de la Maison, Grenoble or Bureau de Coordination du Batiment, Paris, France.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for £12,500

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London Auction 21 September 2016