(Français) Charlotte PERRIAND 1903-1999
Equipement for the Unité d’habitation Air France de Brazzaville (Congo), 1952
Solid sipo frame, interior partitions in exposed okoumé plywood, sides and facade in painted plywood.
Twelve doors (3 double and 9 single) with double walls in painted plywood okoumé, mounted on hinges, with solid padauck handles.
Interior equipment in solid padauck consisting of twelve sliding drawers, two sliding shelves of different sizes in grating, numerous shelves, two sliding pass-through trays of different sizes covered in light gray Formica.
Two doors of different sizes, with solid padouck handles, opening onto the dining room side, interior cladding in “brazza blue” lacquered diamond-coated aluminum sheet, mounted on hinges in a thick solid padauck frame.
Screws and all metal parts are made of anti-corrosion brass.
The shelf supports and drawer slides are assembled using small brass legs to reduce the differences in wooden expansion depending on the humidity level in the air between the dry season and the rainy season.
Around ten complete partition cupboards were found out of the forty made.
Ribs and facade redone, the furniture being initially integrated into a masonry niche. Some interior sleepers redone, Painting redone in original colors.
Adaptation allowing the furniture to be dismantled into 4 parts
Length 224.2 cm, width 68.5 cm, height 218.2 cm.
Bibliography :
Mary McLeod ‘Charlotte Perriand – An art of living” Edition Abrams, New York – 2003. Modèle similaire reproduit 224 et 225
Jacques Barsac “Charlotte Perriand – Un art d’habiter” Editions Norma, Paris – 2005. Modèle similaire reproduit page 332