Charlotte Perriand

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was one of the most important female figures in the history of twentieth-century architecture and design. She owes the beginnings of her career to Le Corbusier, deity of the Modern Movement, in whose studio she enters shortly after the end of her training path and with whom she collaborates for ten years, from 1927 to 1937. The two sign some of the most famous furniture of Modernism, in which they give full artistic dignity to a material such as tubular steel. She is a strong and independent person, she gradually begins to feel the need for a greater possibility of individual expression, and she begins to work on her own, or in collaboration with the equally famous Jean Prouvé. She is very fond of travel and does not set boundaries: she has the opportunity to visit the Soviet Union and Japan, where she spends the entire period of the Second World War. In the postwar period she works more and more often on her own, softening her lines and moving away from the influence of Modernism. Among her most famous projects, the interior of the United Nations Building in Geneva and the ski resort of Méribel. Her furnishings are all reissued by Cassina.