Charlotte Perriand and Japan

Invited in 1940 by the Japanese government to guide the country's production of industrial art, Charlotte Perriand discovered a way of thinking, a way of life and an architecture consistent with the modernist precepts that she defended with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. The exhibitions she organized in Japan, “Selection, Tradition, Creation” and “Proposal for a Synthesis of the Arts”, her publications, her furniture, and her creations in Tokyo and in Paris bear witness to the links she has forged between Western and Eastern cultures. “Of all the Westerners who worked in Japan, it is probably she who has had the greatest influence on the world of Japanese design,” declared the great designer Sôri Yanagi who was her assistant.
Created using Charlotte Perriand's unpublished archives, notes and drawings which reveal the freedom of thought of a great creator in the face of the challenges of a complex period, this work is a valuable lesson for new generations of architects and designers, and also for contemporary society.

Preface by Germain Viatte, director of the Museum of First Arts (Quai Branly) and afterword by Yvonne Brunhammer.

“Charlotte Perriand and Japan is one of the most exciting books of the literary season.”
Guy-Claude Agboton, L'Expansion Tendances, December 2008.

By publishing this second work on the life of Charlotte Perriand, Jacques Barsac and Norma Editions unveil a mechanism necessary for any designer's project: quickly grasping the context of project implementation and all opportunities available, whether relational or artisanal, in leading a communications strategy at full speed.
Olivier Peyricot, Art Critic n°33, Spring 2009

• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 336 pages
• 500 black and white and color illustrations
• Hardcover under dust jacket
• ISBN: 978-2-9155-4216-5

Text in French only

• Jacques Barsac
• (préface) Germain Viatte et Sôri Yanagi
• (postface) d’Yvonne Brunhammer