Saint Laurent is reissuing unique furnishings designs by Charlotte Perriand through the Salone del Cellular in Milan subsequent month.
Titled Saint Laurent — Charlotte Perrian, the exhibition will home 4 of the late French architect and designer’s items courting from 1943 to 1967. Chosen by Saint Laurent’s inventive director, Anthony Vaccarello, every bit might be reproduced on a made-to-order foundation.
Among the many featured designs, Perriand’s Rio de Janeiro bookcase, designed for her second husband, Jacques Martin, in 1962, has solely been exhibited 3 times within the final 25 years. The Indochina visitor armchair (1943), in the meantime, was meticulously recreated by Saint Laurent from an illustration, as the unique was misplaced.
Elsewhere, the Mille-feuilles desk, designed in 1963, initially existed as a “reduced-scale mannequin” as its composition, which included 10 layers of two completely different sorts of wooden, was too troublesome to fabricate. Rounding out the exhibition is a settee that Perriand made for the Japanse ambassador’s Paris dwelling in 1967.
“The partnership between Saint Laurent and Charlotte Perriand is the most recent instance of the home’s ongoing dedication to heritage, aimed to deliver necessary artifacts of design tradition — beforehand hidden in inaccessible collections — to a wider viewers,” the model instructed WWD.
“It additionally honors Yves Saint Laurent’s admiration for Perriand’s work, whose pure modernity echoed his personal creations. He collected her designs all through his life, whereas Pierre Bergé supported necessary world retrospectives of her work.”
Saint Laurent’s reissued Charlotte Periand collaboration might be on view on the Padiglione Visconti in Milan from April 8 to 13. Check out the designs within the gallery above.
