Charlotte Perriand was one of the few women to establish herself at Le Corbusier’s Atelier, where she developed a distinctive creative voice of her own. The Fundació Joan Miró presents the first major exhibition in Spain dedicated to her, spanning four decades of work and showing how she reshaped art, architecture and design around the real needs of the people who would inhabit the spaces. The exhibition brings together projects, photographs and archival material. This makes for a particularly fitting connection in a building where architecture and artistic creation were also designed to coexist.
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Perriand saw design as a meeting point between craftsmanship, industry and everyday life. She drew on influences from the Mediterranean and Japan to create objects that were practical, well designed and a pleasure to use.
The exhibition’s connection with Barcelona goes beyond the work on display, exploring Perriand’s friendship and intellectual affinity with Josep Lluís Sert, the architect behind the Fundació Joan Miró.
