From 4 April to 23 August 2026

Free

From 4 April to 23 August 2026, the Musée de Grenoble is hosting an exhibition dedicated to Charlotte Perriand, a leading figure in 20th-century design and architecture. This event highlights a still little-known aspect of her work: her mountain photographs, recently donated by the Charlotte Perriand Archives to the Musée de Grenoble. These images, taken between 1927 and 1938 and possessing a rare poetic intensity, are juxtaposed with some of her furniture designs and architectural works. The exhibition aims to reveal the intimate coherence of Perriand’s creative universe, where the mountains are never reduced to mere scenery, but assert themselves as a matrix of thought, a place of renewal and formal experimentation, both concrete and spiritual. Born in 1903 in Paris to a modest family whose Savoyard origins would later fuel her imagination, Charlotte Perriand belongs to that generation of artists and thinkers who, in the interwar period, sought to redefine the relationship between humanity, technology and nature. Trained at the Union centrale des Arts décoratifs, she made her mark very early on in the still male-dominated world of design and architecture through her boldness and intuition. Her work reflects a fresh perspective, an eye ‘enamoured of modernity’, to use her own words, yet one that takes in the world from every angle. This insatiable curiosity led her to rub shoulders with the artistic avant-garde: Fernand Léger, Ozenfant, Picasso and Dora Maar, amongst others, whose aesthetic approaches nourished her thinking. Amidst this effervescence of ideas and experimentation, she gradually forged a conception of design as a total act — a way of inhabiting the world rather than merely a decorative art...

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