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Journal of Design History 1998 11(1):31-58; doi:10.1093/jdh/11.1.31
© 1998 by Design History Society
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From Tubular Steel to Bamboo: Charlotte Perriand, the Migrating Chaise-longue and Japan

CHARLOTTE BENTON

Cambridge


  Abstract

The translation into bamboo, in japan in 1940–1, of that most evocative of Modernist furniture designs of the 1920s, the tubular steel chaise-longue designed by Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret, has long presented an enigma. This article explores both the larger background to, and the immediate circumstances of, this transformation. It also considers the legacies of japanese craft production initiatives in the inter-war years to the development of japanese industrial design in the early post-war years, and of Charlotte Perriand's experience of Japan to her post-war work

Key Words: crafts • design • inter-war • japan • Modernism • Charlotte Perriand


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