CHARLOTTE PERRIAND (1903-1999)

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ID 880171
Lot 309 | CHARLOTTE PERRIAND (1903-1999)
CHARLOTTE PERRIAND (1903-1999)

Rare 'En Forme' Desk, circa 1949

ash, ash-veneered beech, aluminium, steel

28 1/4 x 86 1/2 x 39 3/4 in. (71.8 x 219.7 x 101 cm.)





Provenance

Galerie Steph Simon, Paris

Private Collection, France, acquired late 1950s

Thence by descent

Sotheby’s, London, 19 October 2000, lot 201

Hotz Collection, London

Christie's, Paris, 19 May 2015, lot 51

Private Collection, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Musée d’Arts Décoratifs, Les Années UAM 1929-1958, exh. cat., Musée d’Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1988, p. 233 (for a period photograph)

J. Barsac, Charlotte Perriand un art d'habiter, Paris, 2005, pp. 275 (for a L’Equipement de la Maison prospectus), 400 (for a related example)

Charlotte Perriand, exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006, n.p.

M. McLeod, Charlotte Perriand, An art of living, Paris, 2008, pp. 136 (for an L’Equipement de la Maison prospectus), 179

J. Barsac, Charlotte Perriand et le Japon, Paris, 2008, p. 189

J. Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, L'oeuvre complète 1940-1955, volume 2, Paris, 2015, pp. 171 (for a L'Equipement de la Maison prospectus), 173, 250-251, 310-311 (for a provisional catalog), 456 (for a sketch), 457 (for a related example), 475 (for a related example)

J. Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, L'oeuvre complète 1956-1968, volume 3, Paris, 2017, p. 97 (for a related example)

S. Cherruet, Charlotte Perriand, Inventing a New World, exh. cat., Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2019, pp. 259, 319 (for a related example), 333 (for a related example)

F. Laffanour, Living with Charlotte Perriand: The Art of Living, Paris, 2019, pp. 202-207, 214-216, 217 (illustrates present lot)
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