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For seven decades, Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) helped shape the world with her inventions, leaving behind a trail of images, objects, places and buildings, so many records of a work that appears now in its full extent. This first volume of her complete works offers a detailed analysis of her first years of creation, very fertile, as much in the field of design as in that of architecture or photography. Based largely on the archives kept by the artist's family in her Parisian studio, it sheds light on her sources, her environment, her years of learning at the Union Centrale des decorative arts, as well as her meeting and association with Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier, in 1928, which would give birth to emblematic furniture such as the Tilting Chaise longue (1928), and to her first home furnishings (the villa Savoye, the Villa Church, the Villa Martínez). It also introduces us to her activist commitment, which led her to travel to Moscow and then to think about vernacular architecture at the service of the people, which led in particular, in the 1930s, to the House by the Water (1934), to a holiday center (1935), and even to her first mountain architectures. The 1930s saw the creation of the UAM, of which she was one of the founding members alongside Robert Mallet-Stevens, but also her ideological break with Le Corbusier, which, on the eve of the Second World War, led her to set out on her own.
• 23 x 30.5 cm
• 512 pages
• 990 illustrations
• Hardcover, American dust jacket
• ISBN: 978-2-91554-2608
Text in French only