Enameled Summit
Events
For this exhibition dedicated to mountain furniture, we are delighted to present a selection of rare pieces by Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret, commissioned in part for mountain hotels in the French Alps between 1940 and 1970.
We also have a collection of enameled metal panels and objects by Charlotte Perriand, created for several apartments in Arc 1600 between 1967 and 1971, rarely seen on the antiques market.
Photographer Tom Dagnas.
As she wrote in a manifesto in 1929, entitled "Wood or Metal?", "Metal is to interior design what cement was to architecture. It is a revolution."
The "Enameled" exhibition will offer a more intimate glimpse into Charlotte Perriand's work in interior design for mountain settings.
The enameling workshop in Saint-Maurice, in the Val-de-Marne, handled Charlotte Perriand’s commissions. But in 1970, due to financial constraints related to the progress of the Arc 1600 project, Roger Godino asked her to stop using this furniture. The manufacturing cost was too high. It would be replaced by lacquered metal, lacquered wood, or polyester.
Photography by Gaston Karquel, commissioned by Charlotte Perriand.
Hotel “Le Vallon”, 1949.
Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy at the Hotel “Le Vallon” in the 1950s.
From the book “Méribel: A Beautiful Story” by Annick Stein.
Skier in front of the “Le Vallon” hotel in the 1950s.