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Charlotte Perriand at Minim
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This week is the last opportunity to visit the exhibition of furniture inspired by Charlotte Perriand (1903 – 1999) architect and industrial designer at Minim, the design showroom on Via Augusta. A wide range of pieces are included within ‘Charlotte Perriand: l’art d’habiter, l’art de vivre’ that represent different periods of this fascinating and revolutionary artist: her collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierrre Jeanneret (that lasted 10 years), with Jean Prouvé, the period she spent in Japan and Vietnam (between 1940 and 1946) as well as her later career when she worked with companies such as Air France.
Perriand also spent time in Catalonia where as well as furthering her research into materials she enjoyed outdoor sporting pursuits reflected in the versatility and movement in many of the pieces she created.
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Portrait of Charlotte Perriand
Her work is mostly associated with modernism, with experimentation, with new and traditional materials, with an interest in mass production that captured the warmth and humanity of craft. Even today almost one hundred years after Perriand first embarked on her professional career these pieces look revolutionary, timeless yet avant-garde and are still in commercial production.
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Refolo Seating: Modular system that can be used as a low table, bench or furniture to sit by simply adding cushions. Its structure is presented in natural oak or dark stained. Its surface is composed of nineteen slats. The cushions, with polyurethane and polyester wadding, act as: armrests, seats and two cushions to set, one for the seat and one for the backrest.
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Nuage: Sideboards, showcases, bookshelves, with support on the floor or hanging, following a symmetrical or asymmetric configuration, self-supporting bookshelves. Its basic components are the oak wood shelves and vertical elements in anodized aluminum or painted in black. Five different heights The MX compositions can be enriched with practical sliding anodized aluminum trays. Sliding doors in anodized aluminum or painted in different colors. This modular family of bookstores brings freedom of composition and modularity to unsuspected extremes. For Charlotte Perriand, each modular unit was not simply a rigid and insipid piece, but was a block to begin with, offering a functional but flavorful design that could meet the needs of any potential buyer. The design speaks of the volumes of Perriand's pioneering and modern approach as that of someone who firmly believed in "" art "" "of building" "," "of living" "and" "of living" ".
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Accordo: The low table, with its sculpted and visibly dynamic form, was designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1985 on occasion of a retrospective dedicated to her at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Cassina re-released it in 2009, only producing it in the black lacquered wood finish. Today the table is enjoying a second life thanks to the introduction of new lacquered finishes in glossy colours: China red, marron glacé and black, which give it a youthful feel that is highly practical in modern spaces.
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Mexique: High and low table. Metal legs finished in matt black, plastic feet. Triangular shaped boards with rounded edges in solid American walnut or natural oak.
Wood is a natural material, subject to changes caused by external factors such as sunlight, temperature, humidity or daily use. These changes should not be considered defects but peculiarities of the material that emphasize their natural beauty. -
Rio Table: A round table built with six sections in the shape of segments, with different spokes and arranged aligned side by side, with external edge of solid natural oak or black stained oak with open pore. The six non-aligned sections that form the board with hole in the center are available in three different finishes: wicker with natural oak edges, white Carrara marble with natural oak edges and Marquina black marble with black-stained oak edges open pore. It has six legs with the same finishing of the edges that form the base of this auxiliary table.
Charlotte Perriand designed this table in two different sizes. Cassina has returned to produce the first version, designed in 1962 for the home of Jacques Martin in Rio. Subsequently, she adapted and expanded this table for the Japanese Embassy in Paris. -
Tokyo Chaise longue:The backrest, and seat, of this chaise longue is composed of 12 curved wooden slats (teak or bamboo). The connecting elements that connect the boards with the bars below are brass satin pins. The base is made of solid wood (teak or bamboo). The mattress comes with draining polyurethane upholstery and polyester thread resistant to stains coated with PVC treated with an exclusive formula, called Glen Raven, which guarantees its total resistance to mold and presents ISO 9001 certificate. Available in different colors. Each chaise longue comes with its waterproof protective case for the winter season.
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Petalo Colores: Set Sof five auxiliary tables. Matte black metal structure. The tabletops have a triangular shape, rounded corners and are lacquered in the following colors: red, gray, yellow, green and blue.
These tables were designed in 1951 for the halls of the University of Antony, near Paris, but they were never produced. These multi-colored nested tables, thanks to their organic forms, can be placed together in many ways; They are perfect to make the most of any space, regardless of where they are placed. -
Indochine: Small swivel chair with 4 legs. Structure of solid walnut or ash wood stained black. Feet made of plastic material. Fluffy backrest with CFC-free polyurethane foam and polyester wadding. Upholstery of leather or fabric.
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Tabouret Méribel: StyliSed milking stool designed by Charlotte Perriand for her mountain chalet in Méribel, France. This stool was inspired, both in terms of the use of simple materials and the form, in the typical interior architecture of the Alps.
- Minim
- Via Augusta, 185
- 08021 Barcelona
- tel. 93 272 24 25
- www.minim.es