An enthusiast of the mechanical industry and new materials, this eminent French female designer prefers to be called an artist and operates with incredible liberty of thought, desiring first and foremost to be modern and avant-garde. It’s at the side of Le Corbusier and her brother Pierre Janneret that she started to diffuse her ideas crossed with a Bauhaus influence and new conceptions issued from a desire to create functional environments.
In her Parisian showroom, Cassina presents a unique scenography where she juxtaposes rereleases from Charlotte Perriand and her fashions that gave Louis Vuitton the inspiration for their Icônes Spring/Summer 2014 and Fall/Winter 2014-2015 collections. The French brand just keeps paying homage to this woman who was the active link between an economically constrained France and a France with new prerogatives, for example in 1936 when paid holidays were first instated. In fact, the clothing takes up all of Charlotte Perriand’s codes, perfectly harmonizing with the furniture and the architecture with the reuse of the designer’s “Refuge Tonneau”, giving rise to boundless creative uniqueness.
The Perriand universe is being rebuilt here with perfect mastery of memories, setting up the Chaise LC4 CP chair, created in 1938 with Le Corbusier and her brother, as the centerpiece. In this rerelease, the pure and geometric aesthetic continues to respond to current tastes and keeps the line’s futuristic preeminence. Louis Vuitton was involved in the fabrication process along with Cassina, the only enterprise that can claim to create products stamped Perriand, by harnessing the power of saddlery. And so, you can find certain details characteristic of the brand like the yellow stitching in natural leather and the elegant strips on the headrest evoking the finishing of Louis Vuitton’s bags. Limited to 1,000 copies, the piece maintains its prerogatives and adapts to the human body, respecting the proportions of man according to the five laws established by Le Corbusier on his quest for the perfection of forms. With an almost orthopedic attention to the body, the LC4 CP chair, made for the Ville-d’Avray villa, presents a continuous setting to better develop lightness and dynamism. With the usage of tubular steel borrowed from Marcel Bauer or Miles Van Der Rohe and Stam, the history of the construction of modern design is itself constructed, with attention to the authenticity of the values developed by her precursors.
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