A highly elusive piece of late twentieth-century modernist design ephemera documenting the American reassessment of Charlotte Perriand’s contributions to architecture and interior design. Designed by Massimo Vignelli for The Architectural League of New York in conjunction with the 1997–98 exhibition of works from the collection of the Musée national d’Art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou. 12mo (4” x 6”), pictorial wrappers, 70 pages with text by Mary McLeod. Though modest in scale, the production is exceptionally refined, marrying Vignelli’s severe typographic clarity to a rich sequence of black-and-white photographs and documentary reproductions tracing Perriand’s evolution from the tubular steel modernism of the 1920s through her later organic and modular interiors. Scarce; no other copies located in the trade at time of cataloging, nor do I recollect having seen one in the past twenty years. Parenthetical note: I picked up this copy at the exhibition—I had a modern design gallery in SoHo at the time— but for some reason did not attend Ms. Perriand’s lecture at the opening symposium. Not sure what I was waiting for, given that she was 94 at the time. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Contents clean.
A highly elusive piece of late twentieth-century modernist design ephemera documenting the American reassessment of Charlotte Perriand’s contributions to architecture and interior design. Designed by Massimo Vignelli for The Architectural League of New York in conjunction with the 1997–98 exhibition of works from the collection of the Musée national d’Art moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou. 12mo (4” x 6”), pictorial wrappers, 70 pages with text by Mary McLeod. Though modest in scale, the production is exceptionally refined, marrying Vignelli’s severe typographic clarity to a rich sequence of black-and-white photographs and documentary reproductions tracing Perriand’s evolution from the tubular steel modernism of the 1920s through her later organic and modular interiors. Scarce; no other copies located in the trade at time of cataloging, nor do I recollect having seen one in the past twenty years. Parenthetical note: I picked up this copy at the exhibition—I had a modern design gallery in SoHo at the time— but for some reason did not attend Ms. Perriand’s lecture at the opening symposium. Not sure what I was waiting for, given that she was 94 at the time. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities. Contents clean.
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