Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life

Charlotte Perriand and Photography: A Wide-Angle Eye

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This stunning book presents Charlotte Perriand's photographic achievement in its entirety, offering new and valuable insights into the work of this important designer Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was one of the most innovative furniture and interior designers of the twentieth century, long renowned for the tubular-steel chairs she created with le Corbusier. Her career spanned nearly seventy-five years and included work in her native France as well as in Africa, South America, Asia, and Europe, and today her designs are highly collectable. Recently, several hundred photographic negatives were uncovered in her archives, revealing for the first time the scope of her work as a photographer In the late 1920s, French interior and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand was at the cusp of her career, just beginning her work as an architect, designer, town planner, and political militant. Starting in 1927, she turned to photography, which was to play a pivotal role in her development as a designer through the pioneering years of the modern movement. Her photographic venture ended in Japan in 1941, when the hope of a better world was shattered by World War II For Charlotte Perriand, photography was a machine for thinking, taking notes, and stirring emotions, but it was also an instrument of political engagement. Today, her photographs are a revelation, offering unseen glimpses into her creative process and intellectual development. Her photographs express the important themes and questions explored by modern artists of the day, and are part of the vast stream of avant-garde movements in which painters, architects, and photographers - and sometimes all three combined - worked together in a common spirit

Cassina LC Collection Miniature Chair - LC2 Armchair

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Designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand this 1:6 scale miniature has the same new and authentic colours and the same soft and stiff leathers used in the full scale chair Precision and attention to detail executed by Italian craftsmen

MG1 Technical Drawing Ink Pen Set

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Built to Aristo's high standards, ideal for professionals and students alike The Aristo MG1 Technical Drawing Ink Pen set contains 3 Aristo mg1 technical pens in line widths: 0.18mm, 0.25mm and 0.35mm, plus a 25ml refill bottle of black ink

Set Square - Silver Coated

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45 degrees has never been such a breeze with this stylish, silver-coated brass set square Essential for achieving perfect right angles every time

Le Chocolat des Francais - Milk Almond Eiffel Bar

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Surrounded by the crispy almonds of our organic milk chocolate bar 41% is a crispy and creamy blend, full of flavours Le chocolate des Francais has chosen to work with beans coming from the Equator and Peru. This type of cocoa is exclusively dedicated for “grand cru” chocolate! Like wine, it's environment and climate allow the cocoa to develop amazing flavours They follow the same principles for each ingredient added in the chocolate recipes. They are all natural and selected by a high quality sourcing, thus enhancing the fantastic recipes 80g 

Union des artistes modernes

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From its birth in 1929 to its dissolution in 1958, the Union of Modern Artists (UAM) brings together a large number of members driven by the desire to "create without looking back" to meet the needs of the beautiful and useful for all. Among them, major figures such as Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Fernand Léger, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé or Cassandre and many other architects, decorators, furniture designers, painters, sculptors, goldsmiths, bookbinders, graphic designers and poster designers. All share the ideal of a synthesis of the arts capable of responding to the political and social issues of their time, the challenges of a necessary industrialisation and the production of mass housing to imagine new ways of inhabiting and living It is the history of this movement and, beyond, of French modernity and its origins, that the Centre Pompidou exhibition seeks to retrace

Matcha Brewing Kit

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The Matchæologist Matcha Brewing Kit combines our signature artisanal grade matcha with a carefully selected assortment of handcrafted matcha-ware products curated and designed to balance traditional ceremonial values with contemporary functionality The kit contains our artisanal matcha, Matsu™, a Cloud Glass Chawan (handblown double-walled glass bowl), a Full-Hand Chasen (full-length bamboo matcha whisk), and a Bamboo Chashaku (matcha measuring spoon), everything you need to partake in an ancient ceremony in modern style

Traditional Chasen

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A handcrafted matcha whisk used in traditional Japanese tea ceremonies to prepare perfectly smooth matcha This handmade bamboo whisk, known as a ‘chasen’ (茶筅), is traditionally used in Japanese tea ceremonies to prepare perfectly smooth matcha Handcrafted from a single piece of winter-hardened bamboo by specialist chasen artisans in a family workshop that has been crafting these ceremonial masterpieces for generations, each traditional bamboo chasen is truly a unique work of art. It features 100 tines, each of which has been expertly cut, meticulously woven with string, and curled at the tip to allow for the tea to be efficiently whisked to create smooth-tasting matcha — a beautiful work of craftsmanship that will add elegance and sophistication to your daily matcha ritual