The first volume in a planned four-part series, this lavishly book looks at Perriand’s early life: her education, her work in photography, her early interest in pre-fab residential architecture, and her years spent working with Le Corbusier at his studio on the Rue de Sèvres in Paris. While most are familiar with Perriand’s game-changing design work, the book also documents her less widely known involvement with leftist groups and her desire for social change that drove her to create affordable and appealing furniture for the masses. Influenced by this and her participation in the International Congresses of Modern Architecture, Perriand turned in the 1930s to more inexpensive natural materials like cane and wood.
Complete with annotations and a bibliography for further research, Charlotte Perriand offers the first comprehensive book in English on this key figure.
Table of Contents
Preface Jean-Louis Cohen
Introduction Arthur Rüegg
From Grade School to Early Career
Childhood
École de l’Union centrale des arts décoratifs
Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, Paris 1925
Early Career, 1926
Metal: A Revolution in Furniture Design
Le Bar sous le toit, 1927
The Saint-Sulpice Dining Room, the Unité de choc
Travail et Sport, 1927
Partnership with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret for Furniture and Home Furnishings
Meeting Le Corbusier
The Mobilier nouveau Program, 1928
The Chaise longue basculante, 1928
The Fauteuil dossier basculant, 1928
The Fauteuil grand confort, 1928
Tables, 1928
Production of New Tubular Metal Furniture, 1928
Research on Extendable Tables and Folding, Swiveling, Swinging Chairs
Picture Gallery at the Villa La Roche, 1928
Interior Design of the Villa Church, 1928
Interior Design of the Villa Savoye, 1928–31
Maisons Loucheur, 1928–29
La Cellule de 14 mètres carrés par habitant, 1929–30
Wood or Metal?
Standard Storage Cabinets, 1929
Un équipement intérieur d’une habitation, 1929
Furniture Lines
L’Union des artistes modernes
A Few Private Commissions
“Mimi Pinson” in Montparnasse, 1932
The First Building, an Air Terminal, 1930
Villa Martínez de Hoz, 1930
Venesta, 1930
Thumbing Noses at the German Avant-Garde, 1931
The Cité du refuge, Salvation Army Headquarters, Paris, 1929–33
Dwellings for the Ferme radieuse
Houses with Brise-Soleil for Barcelona, 1933
Pavillon suisse at the Cité universitaire, 1931–33
The rue Nungesser-et-Coli Building in Paris, 1931–34
Bat’a Project, 1936
Photography
A Contemporary Tool
L’Art brut, 1933
A Universe of Forms
The Militant Years
Hope for a New World
The Athens Charter, 1933
Return to Moscow, 1934
Developing a Taste for Our Work among the People
CIAM-France
Preparation for the Exposition internationale de Paris, 1937
Vernacular Architecture, or the Genius of the People
Prefabricated Leisure Architecture
La Maison au bord de l’eau, 1934
Vacation Resort in Bandol, 1935
L’Hôtel de haute montagne, 1935
High-Altitude Refuge Chalet, 1936–37
Bivouac Refuge, 1936–37
The Tritrianon, 1937
Mountain Chalet Hotel, 1937–38
The Tonneau Refuge, 1938
Singular Architecture
Public Exhibitions and Social Engagement
La Maison du jeune homme, 1935
Imperative of Reality-Based Work
Practical Advice on Furnishing a Dwelling, 1936
An Affordable Living Room for the Masses, 1936
La Grande Misère de Paris, 1936
Waiting Room of the Minister of Agriculture, 1936
The CIAM, the Pavillon des Temps nouveaux, Rupture, 1937
At the UAM Pavilion, 1937
The Ministry of Agriculture Pavilion, 1937
After the Break with the Rue de Sèvres Studio
Joy of Man’s Desiring
Analysis of Urban Chaos, Can Our Cities Survive?
Office Project for the Minister of National Education, 1937
Free-Form Furniture, 1938–39
Saint-Nicolas-de-Véroce, Flight to the Mountains, 1938
A Mountain Hideaway, 1939
A Hotel in Méribel, 1939
A Village House for her Mother, 1939
Military Housing and Emergency Shelters, 1939
The Flying Schools, 1939
Buildings for the SCAL in Issoire, 1939–40
Departure for the End of the World, 1940
Endnotes
Biography
Bibliography
Index