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Charlotte Perriand |
22 Mar 2007 |
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 When the designer Charlotte Perriand first approached the architect Le Corbusier for work – he remarked with some disdain ‘We don’t embroider cushions here’. But then she won him over with the radical chrome design for a cocktail bar which took 1920s Paris by storm - they went on to collaborate on some of the most iconic furniture of the 20th century. So why isn’t she better known? That’s the question posed by artist Sadie Murdoch - whose new exhibition explores how Charlotte has been overshadowed by her mentor.
Jenni is joined by Sadie Murdoch, the artist behind ‘Modelling Charlotte Perriand’ and Nigel Warburton author of ‘The Art Question’ and ‘Erno Goldfinger – the life of an architect’.
Image taken from the exhibition "Modelling Charlotte Perriand" courtesy of Sadie Murdoch
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