Charlotte Perriand, un art d’habiter (book)

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Charlotte Perriand, an art of living (book) by Jacques Barsac. 2005. Norma Publisher. Large format book. Good condition, slight marks on the slightly faded jacket. French text.

An essential designer of the 20th century, Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) is one of the founders of modern interior architecture, a discipline in its own right in the art of building.
One of the pioneers of design, although her approach remains above all that of an architect, she has continued, for seventy years of her creative life, to carry out political and ethical reflection on a habitat adapted to the ‘man. As soon as she left the school of the Central Union of Decorative Arts at the age of 22, she freed herself from the dominant conservatism to appear two years later in the French avant-garde among the creators of the first tube furniture .

Struck by the modernity of the bar under the roof that she exhibited at the Autumn Salon of 1927, Le Corbusier suggested that she join forces with her and Pierre Jeanneret for the interior design, furniture and equipment of the villas that ‘they build. In 1929, she was one of the co-founders of the Union of Modern Artists. During the ten years of her collaboration with Le Corbusier, she continued research on housing and furniture for the greatest number, modular prefabricated architecture and town planning within the international congresses of modern architecture (ciam) of which she is one of the presenters in France.

At the same time, she developed the technique of photomontage to communicate her political ideas. Appointed advisor for industrial art in Japan in 1940, she discovered a concept of traditional housing that meets the most avant-garde theories. this experience was decisive in the development of her “art of living”, a manifesto expressing a vision based on harmony and emptiness that she wrote on her return to France.

At this time, she participated in the founding of the useful forms movement within the framework of the uam. In 1952, the prospect of mass production led her to sign an agreement with the Jean Prouvé workshops under which she was responsible for aesthetic improvement (existing furniture and providing designs: new furniture) . These 1950s saw the realization of his research on storage with the Brazza cupboard, the Mexican and Tunisian bookcases – as famous as the tilting chaise longue, the swivel armchair and the very comfortable armchair created in 1928 with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret.

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