Charlotte Perriand - Artist Info

About Charlotte Perriand

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    Charlotte Perriand, Stepping Out of Corbusier’s Shadow: Did he, or did she, conceive some of the best modernist furniture in a packed career?

    A show at Fondation Vuitton shows her mastery of design, By Joseph Giovannini, Nov. 21, 2019, Art & Design section, website of The New York Times.
    PARIS — It was 1927, and Le Corbusier had already declared, “The house is a machine for living in.” But like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times, he hadn’t quite figured out how to live with the machine from a practical, everyday point of view in the living room, for example, or the bedroom. Yes, the machine was the messiah of the new Modernism, but how do you sit on one? How do you sleep and ea...

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