Charlotte Perriand and Photography - Jacques Barsac
A Wide-Angle Eye
KORTE INHOUD
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was one of the most innovative furniture and interior designers of the twentieth century, long renowned for the tubular-steel chairs she created with le Corbusier. Her career spanned nearly seventy-five years and included work in her native France as well as in Africa, South America, Asia, and Europe, and today her designs are highly collectable. Recently, several hundred photographic negatives were uncovered in her archives, revealing for the first time the scope of her work as a photographer. In the late 1920s, French interior and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand was at the cusp of her career, just beginning her work as an architect, designer, town planner, and political militant. Starting in 1927, she turned to photography, which was to play a pivotal role in her development as a designer through the pioneering years of the modern movement. Her photographic venture ended in Japan in 1941, when the hope of a better world was shattered by World War II. For Charlotte Perria...
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2011Uitgever: 5 Continents Editions368 paginasTaal: EngelsGrootte: 292x246ISBN-10: 8874395485ISBN-13: 9788874395484Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original pictorial boards, dust jacket, illustrated with (full page) b/w and some colour photographs, 4to. [Auteur: Perriand, Charlotte & Jacques Barsac] [Pagina's: 367] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: 5 Continents Editions] [Jaar: 2019] [Titel: Charlotte Perriand and Photography: A Wide-Angle Eye]
