Charlotte Prerriand Set Of Two Flat Arete Plates For Cassina

Charlotte Prerriand Set of Two Flat Arete Plates For CassinaThe exclusivity of a hand-decorated porcelain dinnerware service, based on ancient influences filtered through the modern sensibilities of an extraordinary pioneer of modernity.Charlotte Perriand was also a photographer and collector of objects and fragments that provided inspiration for her designs. This set grew out of the partnership between Cassina and Ginori 1735 and engraves the porcelain with the patterns inspired by the designer’s photos.Cassina in collaboration with Ginori 1735 and Pernette Perriand-BarsacCharlotte Perriand’s innovative designs are the expression of anew art de vivre that ran against the currents of the day. Hers is adesign approach nourished by multidisciplinary activities, includinga key role played by photography. In this art of living, Perriand poursher passion for observing Nature into the smallest, most revealingdetails. The Le Monde de Charlotte Perriand collection – which beganas a partnership between Cassina and Pernette Perriand-Barsac,Charlotte’s daughter and founder of her mother’s archives – is inspiredby the patterns in the photographs taken by Perriand between 1933and 1934 and manufactured in partnership with Ginori 1735. Handdecorated patterns for porcelain dinnerware that brings another of thedesigner’s passions to fruition – ceramics – matured in contact with theJapanese masters during the years she lived in the Far East. Le Mondede Charlotte Perriand collection is composed of a charger, dinnerplate, soup plate and dessert plate, presented in sets of two, with threedifferent decorations that can be mixed or matched. Engraved on theplates are the designs inspired by Charlotte’s photos. Here, the platespainted with the Tronc pattern depict the circular striations of a treetrunk that could be the face of a lemur or the sensual mouth of anIndian goddess. Or, in the Neige pattern, the contours of a snow slab inthe cracks of a stone floor, captured on film in the Fontainebleau forestin 1934, elicit the likenesses of mythological animals or gorgons. Or,still, the fish bone on the Arête service that calls to mind a mysteriouswork tool. To ensure authenticity, each item is marked with the Cassinaand Ginori 1735 logos.Dimensions· Charger available in three patternsArête, Tronc, Neige 33 cm.· Dinner plate available in threepatterns Arête, Tronc, Neige 27 cm.· Soup plate available in threepatterns Arête, Tronc, Neige 20 cm.· Dessert plate available in threepatterns Arête, Tronc, Neige 20.5 cm.Materials· Porcelain with glossy finish.Each set, containing two plates, issold in an elegant box.Important information regarding images of products:Please note that some of the images show other colors and variations of the model, these images are only to present interior design proposals. The item that is selling is on the first image. Important information regarding color(s) of products:Actual colors may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor, laptop, tablet and phone screen has a different capability to display colors and that everyone sees these colors differently. We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitorAbout the designer:Charlotte Perriand full membership of that avant-garde cultural movement which, from the first decades of the twentieth century, brought about a profound change in aesthetic values and gave birth to a truly modern sensitivity towards everyday life. In this context, her specific contribution focuses on interior composition, conceived as creating a new way of living, still today at the heart of contemporary lifestyle. In the sphere of twentieth century furnishing history, the advent of modernity made possible the entrepreneurial audacity of this true reformer of interior design.About the manufacturer:In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s best-known architects, including Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Franco Albini, Frank Lloyd Wright and Marco Zanuso. While the designs and functional concepts have been precisely preserved, the models have been manufactured using evolved technology. This is also the company that has manufactured iconic pieces of contemporary design from the 1950s to the present day, ideated by some of the most important international designers. Today Cassina continues to look to the future of design with audacious, passionate curiosity and an open, holistic approach. It affirms its exclusive ability to furnish a home’s living and dining spaces completely and iconically with The Cassina Perspective: a concept, a philosophy, an informed, futuristic thought. A detailed, expansive horizon of combinations; when placed together, the products have an innovative soul and the modern icons create authentic, welcoming, personal atmospheres involved in a conversation dominated by a code of design excellence, formal sensitive awareness, solidity and cultural authority.