Bookshelves and benches
Designer/ Charlotte Perriand
Year/ ca. 1950
Materials/ Wood
Dimensions/ Various
Courtesy of Marie Clérin -
Galerie Downtown-François Laffanour
Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour
Paris Selected works by:- Ron Arad
- Choï
- Le Corbusier
- Pierre Jeanneret
- Georges Jouve
- Serge Mouille
- George Nakashima
- Charlotte Perriand
- Jean Prouvé
- Jean Royère
- Ettore Sottsass
Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour specializes in furniture by European and American masters of design – most of them architects – from the twentieth century. For the past twenty-five years, the gallery has organized thematic and monographic exhibitions on designers such as Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Carlo Mollino and Charlotte Perriand. Shortly after the Second World War, this generation of designers brought a new concept to the art of furnishing, dictated by a need for freedom and functionality – a new "art de vivre" in a time of technological and scientific advances – creating for the first time forms that were pure and without ornament.
