Charlotte Perriand furniture
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was born in Paris and attended the École de l’Union centrale des Arts décoratifs from 1920 to 1925, where Maurice Dufrène was one of her teachers. Charlotte Perriand designed furniture made of anodized aluminium and chromium-plated steel, showing it at the 1927 “Salon d’Automne” in Paris. In the same year, at twenty-four years old, she began a decade-long collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Paris.
In 1940 Perriand became a design consultant to the Japanese Board of Trade. She was expelled from Japan in 1942 and spent the rest of the war in Vietnam. From 1946, Perriand worked on many French and international projects, including the French Tourist Office in Piccadilly (1960).
In the late 1970s Charlotte Perriand was in charge of issuing a new edition of Le Corbusier furniture for Cassina.
In 2004, Cassina acquired the worldwide exclusive reproduction rights of products designed by Charlotte Perriand, the licensing agreement being set out with Pernette Perriand-Barsac, her daughter and assistant for more than twenty years. The furniture produced by Cassina includes ‘Ventaglio’, ‘Ombra’, ‘Ospite’, ‘Refolo’ ‘Riflesso’ and ‘Plana’
