Charlotte Perriand

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Image courtesy of Fundació Joan Miró

The show is fully in line with the guiding theme of this year's program: a profound reinterpretation of architecture as a living space, language and way of situating ourselves in the world.

In this context, Perriand is an essential figure. She was one of the few women who managed to enter the great temple of modern architectural and urban creation: Atelier Le Corbusier. She did so not as a silent assistant but as a creator with her own voice, capable of transforming the logic of modern design. From those early years, she championed a key idea that art, architecture and design are inseparable, a synthesis capable of transforming the way we live and a principle resonating naturally with the Fundació Joan Miró, where architecture and creation are conceived as a unified experience.

The dialogue between Perriand and Josep Lluís Sert plays a particularly important role here: the two met in 1928 while working in Le Corbusier's workshop, and they remained friends and intellectual allies for life. The exhibition will follow these intersections by taking visitors on a journey through Perriand's formative years and her pivotal stage at the Atelier Le Corbusier (1927–1937), a period in which many of her designs, including her iconic tilting chaise longue, were overshadowed by Le Corbusier's own work, although recent research and exhibition projects have rightly restored her place in history.

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