Charlotte's Web

edited by Sheila Kim-Jamet -- Interior Design, 12/1/2005 12:00:00 AM

After her death in 1999, institutions from London's Design Museum to the New York branch of Sotheby's started featuring her work more prominently. Now the Centre Pompidou in her native Paris pays tribute with "Charlotte Perriand."

The exhibition is divided into nine chronological sections, beginning with her 1920's partnership with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, passing through Japanese exhibitions that she organized in the 1940's and '50's, and concluding with her architecture and interiors concepts for the French ski resort Les Arcs, Bourg-Saint-Maurice, from the late 1960's to the '80's. Audio of Perriand's own voice lends insight to photographs and models of completed and unrealized projects as well as to examples of her furniture, such as a 1959 wooden storage unit for student housing. Through March 27; 33-1-44-78-12-33; centrepompidou.fr.