Cansado Sideboard von Charlotte Perriand

This sideboard was designed by Charlotte Perriand, circa 1950 and was produced by Steph Simon, France. It has a steel base and a wooden body with wooden handles and features lacquered sliding doors. Provenance: Cansado, Mauritania (Africa).Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was born in Paris and attended the École de l´Union centrale des Arts décoratifs from 1920-1925. She designed furniture made of 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 work solo 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 of 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.´´