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RÉSONACE.
CHARLOTTE PERRIAND AND HER TRACES IN BRAZIL

type: traveling exhibition
year: 2010-2011
location: Winterthur, CH // São Paulo, BR // Rio de Janeiro, BR // Tokyo, JP // Paris, FR
collaborators: Prof. Myriam Gautschi, University of Applied Sciences Constance // Students University at the Applied Sciences Constance

»Résonance. Charlotte Perriand and her traces in Brazil« is an international traveling exhibition, which started in Winterthur on July 2010 and returns via Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Paris to Constance.
The exhibition consists of a planned apartment for her husband on a scale of 1: 2, the »mobile«, which shows the connections and influences from Rio, Tokyo and Paris; a book about their journeys and influences; a film box [diary / documentation of the exhibition]; as well as the travel boxes, which are part of the exhibition while actually being used as transport boxes.

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Charlotte Perriand [1903 to 1999] is usually mentioned in the context of her ten-year work in the studio of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. As an associate interior designer she played a major role in the development of the well-known steel tube classics at a young age. She developed a fascinating, multifaceted and independent work into her senior years. As a curious person, she knew no geographical boundaries, the unknown was her inspiration, the stranger was always her home. In the 1940s she followed the call of Japan as an industrial design consultant.
In the 1960s her ways gone to Rio de Janeiro over and over. Inspired by the country and the people, overwhelmed by the nature, the opulence, the »baroque« as a way of life, she describes in her biography how she had to »give up« her ideal of purism and enter this life to be able to influence her work.
In 1962 Charlotte Perriand designed and arranged an apartment for her husband in Rio. Thanks to her uncompromising translation of the foreign cultural environment, this project based on the quintessence of her work and the thought of that era and gives insights into her work as a »résonance« between different worlds.