A bumper exhibition of Charlotte Perriand’s pioneering furniture designs has gone display at New York’s Venus Over Manhattan gallery.
Installation view. Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York, and Laffanour /Galerie Downtown, Paris
Installation view. Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York, and Laffanour /Galerie Downtown, Paris
Installation view. Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York, and Laffanour /Galerie Downtown, Paris
‘Cuisine-bar Marseilles’ by Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier (1952). Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York, and Laffanour /Galerie Downtown, Paris
Lit simple, Maison du Brésil (1959) by Charlotte Perriand. Courtesy Venus Over Manhattan, New York, and Laffanour /Galerie Downtown, Paris
Fauteuil chrome tubulaire, Édition Thonet (c. 1928) by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand.
The furniture designer – who was hired by Le Corbusier to oversee interiors on his projects – was a key player in the Modernist movement and had a career spanning 80 years.
Nearly 50 key projects are on display in the gallery. This includes a tubular steel chair made in partnership with the architect, and a six-sided table Perriand created in the late 1930s for her Montparnasse apartment. Its unusual shape was designed to fit more people around it.
A kitchen made for Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation and a room filled with furniture she designed for student accommodation in Paris are also on show.
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