Dal Vera Side Chairs

This Les Arcs chair was designed and manufactured by Dal Vera, and chosen by Charlotte Perriand for the alpine resort of Les Arcs in the Tarentaise Valley during the 1960s. The frame is made of chrome metal. The seat with the backrest is made of high-quality natural leather in a cognac color. The chair is slight and comfortable. The designer called her chairs "machines for sitting", which were to fulfill the functions for which they were designed and adapt to human needs. Charlotte Perriand was a French architect and designer. Her work was aimed at creating functional living spaces in the belief that better design helps create a better society. In his article L'Art de Vivre from 1981 he states: The art of living is an extension of the art of inhabiting - living in harmony with the deepest urges of man and with his adopted or fabricated environment. At twenty-four, Charlotte Perriand approached Le Corbusier and asked to join the famous designer studio. Le Corbusier rejected it, commenting on the famous sentence that we do not embroider pillows here. A few months later, after seeing her Bar sous le toi at the Salon D'Automne exhibition in Paris, he apologized and hired her. Perriand worked for him for ten years, working with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret on many projects, most notably the tubular steel chair set...