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life | charlotte perriand
TEXT BY ELLEN LUPTON
Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999) designed some of the most influential furniture of the twentieth century. In 1927, she was a young woman working independently in Paris, designing furniture and interiors. Portfolio in hand, she approached the Swiss architect Le Corbusier and asked him for a job. He turned her down with a sexist quip.
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I want to work with you.
“We don’t embroider cushions here.”
Soon after Corbusier refused to hire Perriand, he visited an installation
she had designed, which recreated her attic apartment in Paris. The room gleamed with metal and glass. Nickel-plated copper stools surround- ed an anodized aluminum bar. There were cushions—but they were leather. Corbusier hired her, and she worked in his studio for the next decade, togeth- er with Pierre Jeanneret.
You’re hired!
Cup- holders!
Mirrored crisscross base
Anodized Chrome aluminum legs