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15/7/2010

Charlotte Perriand

Museum of Design, Zurich

Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999), one of the most innovative interior and furniture designers of the 20th century, did not only strive towards a change in forms but also towards an improvement in social conditions. After the tubular steel furniture, which she developed particularly in partnership with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, she preferred the natural material of wood with its free forms. At the same time her photography, which she approached in a radically modern way, became an impulse for her work. There followed grand stagings of magical objects found on beaches or in junkyards. Charlotte Perriand shared this interest for the poetry of “Art Brut” with Pierre Jeanneret and Fernand Léger, with whom she repeatedly worked. The opening of the archive now provides a longoverdue opportunity to rediscover this important pioneer as a furniture designer, as a photographer and—with her reconstructed large-format collages—as a socially committed woman.

Related Exhibition
In the same thematic framework, the exhibition «Resonance. Charlotte Perriand and her traces in Brazil» is shown at the Forum of the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur until 22 August 2010.

Program accompanying the exhibition

Large-scale Collage: The Photomural and Social Commitment
Wednesday, 21. July 2010, 6 pm
Nanni Baltzer, photo historian, Universität Zürich
Andres Janser, curator, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

The Exhibition as Tool and as Medium
Wednesday, 25 August 2010, 6 pm
Arthur Rüegg, co-curator
Andres Janser, curator, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

Art Brut: Photography between Art and Furniture Design
Wednesday, 8 September 2010, 6 pm
Stanislaus von Moos, Art Historian, Zurich
Arthur Rüegg, co-curator

Furniture: Original and Reproduction, Use Value and Market Value
Wednesday, 22 September 2010, 6 pm
Renate Menzi, curator of the Design Collection, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Andres Janser, curator, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

Charlotte Perriand – A Creative Life
Wednesday, 24 October 2010, 6 pm
Pernette Perriand-Barsac, Daughter and inheritress from Charlotte Perriand, Paris
Arthur Rüegg, co-curator

Museum of Design - Museum Bellerive
Ausstellungsstrasse 60 - Zurich
Andres Janser, curator, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
(in French)

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