Main entry:

Perriand, Charlotte, author.

Title & Author:

A life of creation : an autobiography / Charlotte Perriand.

Publication:

New York : Monacelli Press, 2003.

Description:

383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Vie de création.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- It all began in 1903 -- Le Corbusier and the pioneering age -- Wartime: Japan and Indochina -- Facing reality -- Leisure architecture, furnishings, and the environment.
Also issued online.
Translated from the French.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"French designer Charlotte Perriand had quite a lifetime to remember. From the very beginning of her career, Perriand was celebrated as one of the most exceptional talents of her generation - not to mention one of the "prettiest," as journalists of the time couldn't help noting." "Perriand's capacity to conceive and execute the most ambitious of interiors projects (among them, the vast French ski resort at Les Arcs and the "espace the" in the UNESCO garden in Paris) was matched only by her capacity for friendship. Among her wide circle of intimate friends were some of the most innovative artists and designers of the twentieth century: Jean Prouve, Fernand Leger, Jose Luis Sert, Pablo Picasso, Walter Gropius, Sori Yanagi, Pierre Jeanneret, and, of course, Le Corbusier. Illustrated with dozens of her own photographs, Perriand's fascinating memoir documents her personal and professional relationships as well as her experiences in Russia, South America, and particularly the Far East, where she discovered an affinity for forms that profoundly influenced her work." "When Charlotte Perriand died in 1999 at the age of ninety-six, she left behind not only a legacy of design known for its beauty and integrity, but also her own story - a firsthand account of the birth of the modern movement. It is a story that charts the arc of a life and the arc of the twentieth century itself."--Jacket.

Resources:
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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
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ISBN:

1580930743
9781580930741

Subject:

Perriand, Charlotte.
Interior decorators France Biography.
Interior architecture France History 20th century.
Décorateurs d'intérieurs France Biographies.
Architecture intérieure France Histoire 20e siècle.
Interior architecture.
Interior decorators.
Interior decorators France 20th century Biography.
Interiörer (arkitektur) Frankrike 1900-talet.
Inredningsarkitekter Frankrike 1900-talet.
France.

Form/genre:

Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229686
Call No.: NK44.P456.A35 2003
Status: Available