Charlotte Perriand, "selection" for Arc Mobilier, Résidence LaCachette, Les Arcs 1600 ski resort, 1969/70.
Exceptional living room including a curved sofa, a fireside chair and three armchairs in stained beech, foam cushions and original wool covers.
If the armchair model and the variant of the chair with inclined back and higher legs are known in a few copies, on the other hand our variant of the chair with short legs and straight back matches the curved sofa, furnished with their biomorphic cushions covered with covers two-tone wools in brown and white tones emblematic of the 70's, are the only examples known to date.
Sofa: H. 80 cm, D. 100 cm, floor space 200 x 200 cm
Three Fireside chair: H. 80 cm x L. 68 cm x D. 100 cm.
Three armchairs: H. 88 cm x L. 67 cm x D. 80 cm ( sold)
According to specialist Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand's participation seems to have been limited to the choice of furniture for the Résidence La Cachette, but in this case the fact that the identity of the designer is not mentioned anywhere raises questions.
Furthermore, Charlotte Perriand being the creator of several models of low tube chairs from the 1930s and in bamboo or wood in the 1940s/1950s, we believe that she has a creative role inthis furniture for La Cachette.
Arc Mobilier Selection
“The goal is to select contemporary furniture and objects in harmony with the interior architecture (…) Charlotte Perriand takes this mission to heart to preserve the coherence of her interiors. (….) At the initiative of Charlotte Perriand, R. Godino undertook the creation of a boutique, Arc Mobilier, (…) to offer owners a range of carefully selected furniture and objects (…). The creation of Arc Mobilier is reminiscent of the approach of “Useful Forms”, a movement that she co-founded within the Union of Modern Artists at the end of the 1940s, which took
up the idea of “ bazaar” that Francis Jourdain wanted to create for the Paris International Exhibition in 1937, with his complicity. Arc Mobilier is both an update of the first exhibition “Useful forms, objects of our time” presented at the Museum of Decorative Arts in 1949 and of the Steph Simon gallery which is struggling to survive in the heart of Saint-Germain-des- Close. »
cf. Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, a mountain architect, Editions Norma, Paris, 2023, pp. 421-423
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