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20 years ago, Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999), architect and name of the essential design, disappeared leaving pieces to visionary modernity and always contemporary.
To celebrate this immense talent and for the first time since the creation of the Museum, the Louis Vuitton Foundation puts the Frank Gehry building entirely at the disposal of this great artist.
Early talent, she quickly imposes herself by her audacious and modern style. Fresh out of her studies, the young woman meets Le Corbusier and her cousin Pierre Jeanneret with whom she collaborates in the first part of her career.
A free woman in a masculine environment, she creates avant-garde pieces of furniture that are far removed from the art deco trends of the time. Her swivel chair (1927) and swinging lounge chair (1929) are thus born against the current.
Following the new codes of the Bauhaus industrial world, Charlotte Perriand transformed her apartment in Saint Sulpice, creating a new way of life.
The space is so open to receive his friends in a casual place, the kitchen open, to get the woman out of her small prison and the bathroom over- looks the room for a new intimacy.
Charlotte Perriand
Swivel armchair, B302, 1927 72.7 x 62.5 x 55.5 centimeters Vitra Design Museum
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Courtesy of Vitra Design Museum