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Charlotte Perriand : inventing a new world.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Paris, France : Paris, France : Éditions Gallimard ; Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019Manufacturer: Trento, Italy : Printer Trento. Copyright date: ©2019Description: 429 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9782072857195
  • 2072857198
  • 9782072847653
  • 2072847656
Contained works:
  • Perriand, Charlotte. Works. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.92 23
LOC classification:
  • NA1053.P552 A4 2019
Contents:
Preamble / Frank Gehry -- Preface / Bernard Arnault -- Foreword / Jean-Claude Claverie -- Introduction / Suzanne Pagé -- Charlotte Perriand, Advancing Into the Avant-Garde / Sébastien Cherruet -- Équipement intérieur d'une habitation: New Furniture for a New World / Arthur Rüegg -- The True Measure: The 14-Square-Meter Cellule per Inhabitant / Sébastien Gokalp -- Nature Revisited in the 1930s: Making Their Own Way in the Open Air / Gladys C. Fabre -- Living in Nature with Minimum Impact: Charlotte Perriand's Prefabricated Leisure Architecture / Jacques Barsac -- Charlotte Perriand and the Les Arcs Resort (1967-1989): Nature as Architectural Ideal? / Jean-François Lyon-Caen -- Charlotte Perriand in the Political Arena / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Charlotte Perriand, CIAM, and the Functional City / Enrico Chapel -- The Practice of Giant Photomontage / Véronique Bergen -- The Reconstruction / Jacques Barsac -- Modern Design and the Politics of Bamboo: Charlotte Perriand and Her Exhibition 'Selection, Tradition, Creation' in Japan (1941) / Yuko Kikuchi -- "Proposal for a Synthesis of the Arts, Paris, 1955. Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Charlotte Perriand" / Katia Baudin -- The Mural and the "Art de la rue" / Romy Golan -- Magnifying the Arts / Sébastien Gokalp -- Creating a "New World" / Sébastien Cherruet -- I called her Charlotte / Pernette Perriand-Barsac.
Summary: "What is this 'new world' imagined by architect and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)? How did she reconceive our relationship with the natural world and the role of art in everyday life? The answers provided by this pioneer of modernity seem astonishingly relevant to us today. Published on the occassion of the Fondation Louis Vuitton's major retrospective dedicated to Charlotte Perriand and her links with the artists and architects of her era, this book offers a fresh interpretation of her work, which was characterized by commitment and freedom. Edited by Sébastien Cherruet and Jacques Barsac, with contributions from international authors, it presents an approach that is both chronological and thematic, inviting us on a journey of creativity through the twentieth century. " --publisher's description, lower cover.
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"Exhibition organized by the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, from October 2, 2019 to February 24, 2020"--Page 13

Includes bibliographical references (pages 418-420).

Preamble / Frank Gehry -- Preface / Bernard Arnault -- Foreword / Jean-Claude Claverie -- Introduction / Suzanne Pagé -- Charlotte Perriand, Advancing Into the Avant-Garde / Sébastien Cherruet -- Équipement intérieur d'une habitation: New Furniture for a New World / Arthur Rüegg -- The True Measure: The 14-Square-Meter Cellule per Inhabitant / Sébastien Gokalp -- Nature Revisited in the 1930s: Making Their Own Way in the Open Air / Gladys C. Fabre -- Living in Nature with Minimum Impact: Charlotte Perriand's Prefabricated Leisure Architecture / Jacques Barsac -- Charlotte Perriand and the Les Arcs Resort (1967-1989): Nature as Architectural Ideal? / Jean-François Lyon-Caen -- Charlotte Perriand in the Political Arena / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Charlotte Perriand, CIAM, and the Functional City / Enrico Chapel -- The Practice of Giant Photomontage / Véronique Bergen -- The Reconstruction / Jacques Barsac -- Modern Design and the Politics of Bamboo: Charlotte Perriand and Her Exhibition 'Selection, Tradition, Creation' in Japan (1941) / Yuko Kikuchi -- "Proposal for a Synthesis of the Arts, Paris, 1955. Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Charlotte Perriand" / Katia Baudin -- The Mural and the "Art de la rue" / Romy Golan -- Magnifying the Arts / Sébastien Gokalp -- Creating a "New World" / Sébastien Cherruet -- I called her Charlotte / Pernette Perriand-Barsac.

"Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World" : October 2, 2019-February 24, 2020, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

"What is this 'new world' imagined by architect and designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999)? How did she reconceive our relationship with the natural world and the role of art in everyday life? The answers provided by this pioneer of modernity seem astonishingly relevant to us today. Published on the occassion of the Fondation Louis Vuitton's major retrospective dedicated to Charlotte Perriand and her links with the artists and architects of her era, this book offers a fresh interpretation of her work, which was characterized by commitment and freedom. Edited by Sébastien Cherruet and Jacques Barsac, with contributions from international authors, it presents an approach that is both chronological and thematic, inviting us on a journey of creativity through the twentieth century. " --publisher's description, lower cover.

Text in English, with translations from the French.

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