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CHARLOTTE PERRIAND
1903 to1999

Charlotte Perriand was a designer and architect. Her work is regarded as modern and stylish today, as it was in the first half of the twentieth century.

As a student, she studied furniture design at the ‘School of the Central Union of Decorative Arts’, in Paris. She aimed to design affordable furniture, that could be mass produced for a wide and varied customer base. Her early designs were regarded as radical and initially, were not commercially successful. She became one of the most influential, innovative designers, of the twentieth century.

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Charlotte often worked with Pierre Jeanneretan and another famous French designer, Le Corbusier, in the late 1920s and early 1930s. They co-designed a number of commercially successful pieces of furniture, largely manufactured by a company called Cassina. The LC4 Chaise Longue (Lounge) Chair of 1928, was an innovation in design.

SOME OTHER PERRIAND DESIGNS