ABSTRACT

Charlotte Perriand was born in Paris on October 24, 1903. She spent her childhood in Burgundy and the Savoy region, at her paternal grandfather's home. In 1926 Charlotte married the British "Percy," a relationship that lasted only a few years. Along with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte participates in the first exhibition of Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM) at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. A year later Le Corbusier, Dudok, and Gropius joined the group; as did Lurcat and Sartoris in 1932. During the reception offered in honor of the Bauhaus at the German Embassy that same year, Charlotte Perriand became acquainted with someone who would become a faithful friend and a great working companion, the painter Fernand Leger. Charlotte Perriand died in Paris in 1999, without seeing the new century and millennium. After a long and fruitful life dedicated to architecture, she cultivated the proverb often heard from her mother: "Work is freedom."