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Why Charlotte Perriand is still the most iconic furniture designer of the 20th century

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You can follow the live sale on Sotheby’s website.“We still have the prototype of that table in our house in Meribel,” says Pernette Perriand, Charlotte’s daughter, who with her husband Jacques Barsac looks after her mother’s legacy. “But ours was in pine.

My mother didn’t intend to make another one, until this person specifically requested it. She must have believed in the architectural project – that was how she worked.” Instead of pine, the client, a major medical scientist and researcher, asked for the table be made in African dibetu, a luxurious golden brown wood streaked with black veins. “It’s a masterpiece,” says Florent Jeanniard, who is running the Sotheby’s sale.“It could be Art Deco, or from a few years ago.

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