Charlotte Perriand

Charlotte Perriand was born October 24th, 1903 in Paris, France. She studied furniture design at Ecole de l’Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, and made her big break at 24 years old, with “Bar Under the Roof" - furniture made out of chromed steel and anodized aluminium.

Soon after her work was acclaimed by critics, she became acquainted with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret and began a collaboration that would last more than 10 years.

In 1946 she returned to France and revived her career as an independent designer. She worked on many projects in the next 20 years, including the design of Hôpital Saint-Lo with Fernand Léger, a prototype kitchen for Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation apartment building in Marseilles, and designed the League of Nations building for the United Nations in Geneva. In 1962, Perriand began a long-running project to design a series of ski resorts in Savoie.

In 1998, her autobiography ‘Une Vie de Création’ was published, along with a retrospective of her work.

Charlotte Perriand died in Paris on October 27, 1999 after a long and prosperous design career.

She is one of the most remarkable figures in the development of modernist design and a pioneer female in the furniture design world.

Charlotte Perriand's famous furniture designs include:

Charlotte Perriand - LC4 Chaise Longue, buy now from DWR by selecting the photograph for more information.

Synthese des Arts stacking Chairs - 1953

B301 sling back chair ( Fauteuil Dossier) 1928

LC2 Grand Confort 1928

B306 chaise longue recliner 1928

B302 Swivel Chair, 1928-29