Le Monde de Charlotte Perriand

Le Monde de Char­lotte Perriand: a new table­ware collec­tion inspired by her passion for nature 

Cassina contin­ues its collab­o­ra­tion with Ginori 1735 and presents the finest porce­lain dinner set inspired by the photog­ra­phy of Char­lotte Perriand. Hand deco­rated and char­ac­ter­ized by patterns that combine the colors blue and white, this strik­ing set of plates is the perfect proposal to embell­ish any dinner table. 

The Le Monde de Char­lotte Perriand collec­tion includes a place holder plate, a dinner plate, a bowl, and a side/​dessert plate, presented in a set of two, with three differ­ent deco­ra­tions that can be mixed and matched. Each piece is marked with the Cassina and Ginori 1735 logos. 

A pioneer of moder­nity, archi­tect, urban planner, designer, and photog­ra­pher Char­lotte Perriand was commit­ted to defin­ing an entirely new art de vivre that would break with the tradi­tional codes of her era. In the late 1930s, photog­ra­phy took on a funda­men­tal role in devel­op­ing her creative process and became an impor­tant inspi­ra­tion for her furniture designs. 

Thanks to the close collab­o­ra­tion with Pernette Perriand-Barsac, Char­lotte Perriand’s daugh­ter and founder of the archives, four differ­ent graphic motifs present in photographs taken between 1933 and 1934 have been iden­ti­fied for the Le Monde de Char­lotte Perriand collection. 

A great observer, Char­lotte was fasci­nated by nature: she collected many objects found during her travels, such as stones, roots, pieces of wood, and fish bones, and she observed their shape, mate­ri­als, and geome­tries and used them as elements of inspi­ra­tion for her designs.

Each hand-painted design in the Le Monde de Char­lotte Perriand collec­tion is an object of poetry and testi­monies, a concep­tual adven­ture ready to ignite the imag­i­na­tion. However unrec­og­niz­able at first glance, the elements of nature photographed by Char­lotte Perriand awaken a series of asso­ci­a­tions that are recalled during one’s culinary experience. 

The contours of a patch of snow in the crevices of a stone floor, photographed in the forest of Fontainebleau near Paris in 1934, evoke mytho­log­i­cal animals, gorgons, or carni­val figures. The circu­lar bands of a tree trunk conjure up the hallu­ci­na­tory face of a lemur or the sensual mouth of an Indian goddess, and a fish­bone on a black back­ground reminds us of a work tool whose use is unknown.

Please see spec sheet to the left for more details.