Saint Laurent Reissues Uncommon Charlotte Perriand Furnishings Designs

PARIS — Having labored with the Donald Judd Basis on the redesign of its Rive Droite flagship in Paris, Saint Laurent is celebrating one other icon of 20^th century design with a particular occasion throughout the Salone del Cellular in Milan.

The French style home is resurrecting 4 uncommon furnishings designs by Charlotte Perriand for an exhibition titled “Saint Laurent — Charlotte Perriand,” resulting from happen on the Padiglione Visconti from April 8 to 13.

Relationship from 1943 to 1967, the objects chosen by inventive director Anthony Vaccarello beforehand existed solely as prototypes or sketches, together with a number of items the French architect and designer created for her personal properties all over the world.

Saint Laurent has painstakingly reproduced the furnishings designs, which can be obtainable on a made-to-order foundation as a restricted version.

“The partnership between Saint Laurent and Charlotte Perriand is the newest instance of the home’s ongoing dedication to heritage, aimed to carry essential artifacts of design tradition — beforehand hidden in inaccessible collections — to a wider viewers,” the model mentioned in an announcement shared completely with WWD.

“It additionally honors Yves Saint Laurent’s admiration for Perriand’s work, whose pure modernity echoed his personal creations. He collected her designs all through his life, whereas Pierre Bergé supported essential international retrospectives of her work,” it added, referring to the home’s founder and his companion.

Having began her profession working alongside Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Perriand went on to journey extensively, heading to Tokyo in 1940 to work as a marketing consultant to the Japanese authorities on the event of furnishings manufacturing.

Pressured to depart the nation throughout World Conflict II, she was appointed director of crafts and utilized arts by the colonial administration of present-day Vietnam, the place she met her second husband Jacques Martin.

Perriand designed the Rio de Janeiro bookcase in 1962 for Martin, who was working for Air France in Brazil on the time. Fabricated from stable rosewood, it was conceived to show artworks alongside books, with sliding doorways made from woven cane.

A part of a non-public assortment, the unique has solely been exhibited 3 times during the last 25 years, Saint Laurent famous.

Likewise, the Indochina visitor armchair was created in 1943 for the couple’s residence in Vietnam. Saint Laurent recreated the piece from a drawing, as the unique piece was misplaced.

The Mille-feuilles desk, in the meantime, existed solely as a reduced-scale mannequin because it was too advanced to fabricate. Designed in 1963, it’s constructed from 10 layers of two kinds of wooden, one mild and one darkish, and recessed within the middle to kind concentric circles.

Saint Laurent famous that every desk produced can be distinctive, owing to the singular patterns created throughout its fabrication.

The ultimate design was extra public-facing: a settee for the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Paris from 1967. Perriand was answerable for the interiors of the dwelling, designed by the architect Junzo Sakakura, together with the big couch in the primary reception room.

The Japanese embassy in Paris helped to establish key particulars of the banquette couch, which includes a 23-foot-long curving base, in order that it might be reproduced in restricted numbers.

To coincide with the exhibition throughout Milan Design Week, the momentary Saint Laurent Editions kiosk exterior its retailer on Piazza San Babila will carry a e book of Perriand’s images alongside a catalog of the brand new furnishings assortment.

A choice of her photographs can even be on view on the model’s bookshop and file retailer on Rue de Babylone in Paris, from April 9 to Might 4, and its Rive Droite flagship on Rue Saint-Honoré, from April 8 to Might 7.