Charlotte Perriand died in 1999 at the age of 96. On the twentieth anniversary of her death, the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris has mounted an incredible exhibition of the work of this often unheralded designer who helped shape 20th-century living.
For the first time since its opening in 2014, the entirety of the sprawling Frank Gehry building has been devoted to one designer, a testament to Perriand's influence and appeal to contemporary audiences after decades in the shadow of Le Corbusier, in whose studio she worked beginning in 1927. Opened last week and on view through February 24, 2020, Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World spans four levels and showcases her revolutionary furniture pieces, like the ubiquitous Swivel Armchair (1927) and the bent plywood stacking Ombre Chair (1954), as well as faithful reconstructions of spaces and structures she designed such as the Tea House for the Cultural Festival of Japan in Paris (1993) and La Maison au bord de l'eau (1934) nearly 60 years earlier, installed outside over the cascading water feature at the bow of Gehry's shiplike pile.
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