CHARLOTTE PERRIAND , Table, from Cité Cansado, Mauritania , 1958s

Charlotte Perriand - Cansado table, Cité Cansado, Mauritania Laminated plywood, painted metal Ed. Steph Simon.

Charlotte Perriandd Commode from 1958 in warm brown wood and light grey

Desk designed by Charlotte Perriand for the Cansado mining village between 1959 and 1967. It features a grey laminated top mounted on a black lacquered tubular metal frame, concei...

Desk designed by Charlotte Perriand for the Cansado mining village between 1959 and 1967. It features a blue laminated top mounted on a black lacquered tubular metal frame, concei...

Charlotte PERRIAND (1903-1999) Grooved table, model designed around 1954, piece acquired at the Steph Simon Gallery around 1960 Ash dining room table. Thick top with a slightly cha...

This item is raw and sturdy. Its rugged textures and bold lines define that radical character. Its presence is uncompromising and captivating. Signs of age, patina, and the traces of...

Charlotte Perriand, round table, circa 1970 Rare "Soleil" adjustable table from Les Arcs (France). Metal and oak.  

Console designed by Charlotte Perriand, circa 1958. Manufactured in France, circa 1958. Laminated plastic-covered plywood, painted steel and grey moulded plastic. Drawer moulded with Modele Charlotte Perriand or Brevete S.G.D.G. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) she was born in Paris in 1903 and attended the E´cole de l'Union centrale des Arts de´coratifs from 1920-1925. Charlotte Perriand designed furniture made of anodized aluminium and chromium-plated steel, showing it at the 1927 "Salon d'Automne" in Paris. After meeting Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand worked with him and Pierre Jeanneret until, 1937. The revolutionary tubular steel furnishings and system furniture designed by the three were presented as "E´quipement de l'habitation" (home equipment) at the 1929 "Salon d'Automne," where they were widely acclaimed. In 1930 the Union Des Artistes Modernes (UAM) was founded in Paris, a group that viewed itself as a countermovement challenging such establishment organizations as the "Salon d'Automne" and also advocated Art Deco and Modernism. From 1931 Charlotte Perriand showed her own work solo there. In 1937 Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret collaborated on designing a mountain chalet of sheet aluminium, which they showed at the "Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne" and later they came up with plans for prefab houses made of aluminium. In 1940 Charlotte Perriand became a design consultant to the Japanese Board of Trade...

Table designed by Charlotte Perriand, circa 1950. Wood, metal frame legs. Provenance: Cansado, Mauritania (Africa). In original condition, with wear consistent with age and use, p...

Charlotte Perriand for les Arcs dinning pine table with metal foot