{"id":55884,"date":"2019-03-04T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/?p=55884"},"modified":"2019-03-04T15:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:53:02","slug":"charlotte-perriand-french-designer-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/charlotte-perriand-french-designer-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Perriand, a French Designer in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As asiatic inspiration is the lung of actual trends, Magasin D\u00e9co invites you to come back in time and discover a designer that was deeply inspired by Japan, the french Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em>. Trained by the greatest, Henri Rapin, Le Corbusier or Jean Prouv\u00e9 and friend of Sori Yanagi, Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em> is a women that is not afraid of the unknown, but that jump on it with enthousiasm. Here is the extraordinary destiny of a french designer inspired by the Sunrise country : Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Who is Charlotte Perriand ?<\/h1>\n

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Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em> is born in 1903 in Paris from a taylor father and a\u00a0seamstress mother. She enter the\u00a0Ecole\u00a0de L\u2019Union Centrale de Arts Decoratifs in 1920, aged 17 years old and graduate in 1925, one of his teacher had been one of the master of\u00a0Arts D\u00e9coratifs, Henri Rapin.<\/p>\n

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In 1927, Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em> aged 24 years old, she re design her own appartment, creating the univers of the \u201cBar sous le toit\u201d discovered at the exhibition of the Salon d\u2019Automne. The same year, she enter the atelier of Le Corbusier and Pierre Janneret, where she will stay a decade. This partnership is principaly in product design and will be deeply successfull culturaly and for the reputation of Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The top of this partnership will be in 1929 for the Salon d\u2019Automne when the trio shows off the design of the \u201cEquipement int\u00e9rieur d\u2019une habitation\u201d and re think the complete organisation of interior design. During this partnership, pieces like the Grand Confort Armchair, or the long Chair Corbu were created.<\/p>\n

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Long Chair Corbu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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During the mid-thirties, Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em> join the left poilitical side by entering two organizations : the\u00a0Association des \u00c9crivains et Artistes R\u00e9volutionnaires and the\u00a0Maison de la Culture. In 1937, she puts an end to her relation with Le Corbusier, starts a partnership with Jeunes and creates the Union des Artistes Modernes. Her style becomes more natural and she starts to use raw materials that are more comfortable such as wood. Finally, the 8th of February 1940, she definitly break up with her industrial past when she receives a telegram offering her a position in Japan.<\/p>\n

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Union des Artistes Modernes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The Country of the Rising Sun<\/h1>\n

Invited by the Ministery of Business, and following a 8.30 meters long letter,\u00a0calligraphed by\u00a0Shik\u00f4 Munakata, Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em> leave France for Japan. Her objective ? Opening the japaneese industry to Occident, creating industrial production standards. She is gonna be deeply influenced by the japaneese cultures and will profoundly influence it.<\/p>\n

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Shik\u00f4 Munakata<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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5 months after the beggining of the 2nd World War, the 15th of June 1940, she go on board of the\u00a0Hakusan Maru from Marseille to Kob\u00e9. \u201cAt that time, Japan was like the Moon\u201d she said. She visits the first japaneese popular art museum created in 1936 by\u00a0Yanagi S\u00f4etsu : The\u00a0Mingeikan.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0Mingeikan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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During the fall, Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em> walk around the japaneese streets, discover the countryside, the landscapes, the culture and the japaneese craftmanship. She get her inspiration from the traditionnal japaneese technics. \u201cBe inspired by the real traditions doesn\u2019t mean reproducing them, but create new with fundamental laws. She advices Japaneese to avoid to reproduce stupidly occidental pieces and she creates the exhibition:\u00a0Contribution\u00a0\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9quipement int\u00e9rieur de l\u2019habitation.\u00a0Japon\u00a02601, using local materials such as bambu.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte Perriand in Japan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em> leaves Japan in 1941, just before the Pearl Harbor attack. She will definitly come back in France in 1946, soon after the war. However, her adventure with Japan isn\u2019t finished because she will come back in 1953 to design the house of her husband in Tokyo and in 1959 to design the new agency of AirFrance.<\/p>\n

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Air France Offices<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the Arts M\u00e9nager tradeshow in 1957, she shows off a \u201cJapaneese House\u201d, which is a clever mix of objects that she created and\u00a0S\u00f4ri Yanagi art works. It is at this occasion that she makes\u00a0Yanagi known in France. The cherry on the top of the cake is a partnership with\u00a0Junz\u00f4 Sakakura to design the house of the Japaneese ambassador in Paris in 1965.<\/p>\n

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Japaneese ambassador in Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In conclusion, Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em> was deeply influenced by Japan but had also really deeply influenced Japaneese designers.<\/p>\n

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A piece of art to discover<\/h1>\n

Let\u2019s discover now some pieces created by Charlotte Perriand<\/strong><\/em>, that defines perfectly her style and that shows how she durably marked the design world :<\/p>\n

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Created in 1954, the Ombre chair is made of black curved plywood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Biblioth\u00e8que Mexique<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Biblioth\u00e8que Tunisie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Biblioth\u00e8que Nuage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Those shelfes were developped after she cames back from Japan, and are inspired by a first prototype though by Pierre Jeanneret before the war. They are composed by aluminum and wood boxes and sliding doors. The differents sizes of the boxes are giving movement and dynamic to the piece. This kind of product is revolutionnary for that time.<\/p>\n

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T\u00f4ky\u00f4 was created in 1954 from Binoki wood.<\/p>\n

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To summarize, she\u00a0was an avant-gardist, never afraid. She broke the design rules and traveled to the other side of the world for inspiration. She revolutionnized 20th century classic design and inspired plenty of young designer.<\/p>\n

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