Perriand Charlotte

Charlotte Perriand is the French designer. She is the one of the firsts female architects all over the world, partner of Le Corbusier and Jean Prouve, author of iconic furniture made of bent metal pipes which has become the embodiment of modern style. From 1927 to 1937 she worked in the architectural studio of Le Corbusier, in 1930s, Charlotte created prefab houses with Jean Prouve, tried to popularizing the ideas of typical modular construction. In 1940 she was invited to Japan as a consultant on industrial design and in the early 1960s she livedin Rio de Janeiro. She also opened to the West modern traditional crafts of Japan, Vietnam and Latin America, combining ancient techniques with the principles of modern shaping.

Fascinated by the idea of ​​synthesizing the arts, Charlotte Perriand collaborated with avant-garde artists: Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Fernand Leger, Isamu Noguchi. The largest project in her carrier was the Les Arcs ski resort in the French Alps, on which Perrian worked on since 1968. She owned the architectural solution, interior design and furniture design.