Sotheby's Auction of Charlotte Perriand's 1970's Designs
Courtesy of Wikimedia She was bold, playful, clever—a true visionary—and she also designed some of the most forward-thinking furniture of the 20th century, much of it under the studio of the great architect Le Corbusier, for whom she worked from 1927 to 1937. Charlotte Perriand, the Parisian-born designer and architect, was known for her tomboyish love of outdoor calisthenics and lived what the French—and Le Corbusier—called l'espirit nouveau (the title of his literary magazine published with the poet Paul Dermée and painter Amédée Ozenfant), and this curious, modern attitude can...