In 1937 Charlotte Perriand, who had helped design the Salvation Army’s headquarters in Paris and overseen a number of furniture and interior design projects of her own, handed in her notice to Le Corbusier. She had worked at his firm for a decade and even conceived the furniture and fittings of his new apartment in the 16th arrondissement. As well as immediately getting her teeth into some impressive work, including designing the Agriculture Pavilion for the Paris Exhibition in 1937 with Fernand Léger and masterminding the modernist ski resort Les Arcs in Savoie, she began to experiment with photography. The medium became increasingly important to her both professionally and personally. In an exhibition that pairs Perriand’s photographs with her clean, forward-thinking designs, she emerges as a figure who thought deeply about how to create environments as well as interiors (1 May–13 September).
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