How a Low-Key French Designer Went from Deep Cut to on Trend

A few months before her death in 1999, Charlotte Perriand was asked in an interview whether she considered herself an architect or a designer. She rejected both titles. “I’d say first of all that I’m nothing. For the following reason: I have never designed an object, a form, a piece of furniture that I didn’t need to relate to a whole. If you asked me today to design you a chair, I would say ‘To go where?’ I have no imagination.” Such a claim seems like rich stuff, given the place Perriand has come to occupy in an increasingly design-obsessed… Read Full Article