First released in 1952, now available from Cassina in an updated form, Charlotte Perriand’s iconic ‘en forme libre’ or free-form furniture dates back to 1928. Perriand originally designed a series of tables and desks for her studio in Montparnasse, creating liberating designs with no sharp corners.
The soft shape of the tabletop has a timeless elegance, rendered in richly tactile solid wood that provides a robust and enduring workspace, perfect for use in a home office or studio. The desk’s generous proportions allow you to spread out and work in a way that suits you best.
One of the most influential furniture designers of the early modern movement, Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) introduced the 'machine age' aesthetic to interiors in the steel, aluminium and glass furniture she created at Le Corbusier's architectural studio in the late 1920s and 1930s.
Perriand also forged friendships with the gifted young architects and designers from all over the world who, like her, had jumped at the chance to work for Le Corbusier as an unpaid or, if they were very lucky, poorly paid assistant. Together with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Perriand developed a series of tubular steel chairs, which were then (and are still today) hailed as icons of the machine age.
