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year c. 1938
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source title Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living
info Note the free-form table by Perriand and the painting by André Bauchant on the mansard ceiling. Another painting by Bauchant hangs on the back of the storage unit that partitions the dining area. In 1928, Perriand designed the first of her free-form desks and tables. They were intended “to make space sing.” One of the most famous examples was a desk designed for the office of Jean-Richard Bloch, editor of Ce Soir. Perriand installed another free-form table in her mansard apartment in Montparnasse, which shared a party wall with Léger’s studio. The pieces were constructed of pine beams Jeanneret had salvaged from the dismantling of the Temps Nouveaux pavilion and put together with traditional joinery; their surfaces had a rubbed finish that was satiny and voluptuous to touch, “soft as the thighs of a woman,” in Perriand’s own description.
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year c. 1938
material wood
source title Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living
info Note the free-form table by Perriand and the painting by André Bauchant on the mansard ceiling. Another painting by Bauchant hangs on the back of the storage unit that partitions the dining area. In 1928, Perriand designed the first of her free-form desks and tables. They were intended “to make space sing.” One of the most famous examples was a desk designed for the office of Jean-Richard Bloch, editor of Ce Soir. Perriand installed another free-form table in her mansard apartment in Montparnasse, which shared a party wall with Léger’s studio. The pieces were constructed of pine beams Jeanneret had salvaged from the dismantling of the Temps Nouveaux pavilion and put together with traditional joinery; their surfaces had a rubbed finish that was satiny and voluptuous to touch, “soft as the thighs of a woman,” in Perriand’s own description.
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