Le monde nouveau de Charlotte Perriand. The exhibition

Talking about Charlotte Perriand and her work means to talk about 20th-century architecture: a difficult task, you could say an impossible one, yet the curators of the exhibition Arthur Rüegg, Jaques Barsac, Sébastien Cherruet, Gladys Fabre, Sébastien Gokalp and Charlotte’s daughter, Pernette Perriand-Barsac, did it. A work of extreme interest, a “classic” exhibition held in the Louis Vuitton Foundation, in a time when one wonders if large exhibitions made of objects, drawings, models, reconstructions are still needed: this experience shows that not only they are useful, but they are still extremely interesting. Charlotte Perriand had a long life – she was born in 1903 and died in 1999 – spanning the century and following a path of freedom and independence, «creation has no formulas» she affirms, so tracing her creative parable, which is a parable of life, without schemes and compromises.