Les Arcs Pine Coat Rack by Charlotte Perriand, 1960s

This coat rack was designed by Charlotte Perriand for Les Arcs ski resort circa 1960, and manufactured in France. It is made from pine. In a very good original vintage condition. Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was born in Pari and attended the École de l’Union centrale des Arts décoratifs from 1920-1925. Charlotte Perriand designed furniture made from anodized aluminium and chromium-plated steel, showing it at the 1927 “Salon d’Automne” in Paris. After meeting Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand worked with him and Pierre Jeanneret until 1937. The revolutionary tubular steel furnishings and system furniture designed by the three were presented as “Équipement de l’habitation” (home equipment) at the 1929 “Salon d’Automne”, where they were widely acclaimed. In 1930 the Union Des Artistes Modernes (UAM) was founded in Paris, a group that viewed itself as a countermovement challenging such establishment organizations as the “Salon d’Automne” and also advocated Art Deco and Modernism. From 1931 Charlotte Perriand showed her own solo work there. In 1937 Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret collaborated on designing a mountain chalet of sheet aluminium, which they showed at the “Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne” and later they came up with plans for prefab houses made from aluminium. In 1940 Charlotte Perriand became a design consultant to the Japanese Board of Trade. She lived in Japan until 1946 and from then on Charlotte Perriand’s designs reveal overtones of the Japanese feeling for form, as shown by the 1953 chair “Synthèse des Arts”.