Cassina Vase À Fleurs Échancré
VASE À FLEURS ÉCHANCRÉ
VASE À FLEURS ÉCHANCRÉ
Designed by Charlotte Perriand, 2024
A blown glass vase designed by Charlotte Perriand in the 1940s, presented today by Cassina for the first time.
DESIGNER
CHARLOTTE PERRIAND
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.
At the beginning of her professional career she was acclaimed by critics for her Bar under the roof, exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in 1927 and constructed entirely in nickel-plated copper and anodized aluminium.
In the same year, when she was just twenty-four years old, she began a decade-long collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, at the famous design studios at 35, rue de Sèvres in Paris.
Her presence in the Le Corbusier studio is visible in all the furnishings designed with him and with Pierre Jeanneret: and so Charlotte Perriand becomes a cornerstone in the reformation project promoted by the architect, adding a distinct dimension of humaneness to the often cold rationalism of Le Corbusier.
In her creations she manages to animate the fundamental substance of daily life with new aesthetic values: in particular her talent and intuition in the discovery and use of new materials manifest themselves to their full extent.
The ten-year long collaboration with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and her Japanese experience, represent periods of intense creative effervescence in the life of the artist.
During her long stay in the Far East (‘40-‘46), she reveals her artistic talent to the full, through a reinterpretation of the reality of life to echo both tradition and modernity.
By way of example, worthy of mention are the furnishings produced using traditional bamboo processing techniques, capable of enhancing the new forms already experimented using steel-tubing.
After her work as a professional, she concentrates on a series of original and balanced productions, commissioned by top-level authorities and leading companies of the calibre of Air France, and by a number of foreign organizations, authenticating the fame she had by now gained on the international scene.
The distinguishing factor of Charlotte Perriand’s personality is a sincere loyalty to the principles of humane and innovative rationalism, preserved intact in her projects, on which she worked with such passion, also in readiness for their revival in the “Cassina I Maestri” collection.
INFORMATION
BRAND
Cassina
PRODUCT TYPE
Vase
MATERIAL
Glass
PRODUCTION
Made in Italy
ENVIRONMENT
Indoor
DESIGNER
Charlotte Perriand
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2024
DIMENSIONS
- Height : 27 cm (10.5 in)
- Width : 26 cm (10.4 in)
- Depth : 13 cm (5.3 in)
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PRODUCT CARE AND MAINTENANCE
- In this manual you will find some recommendations for the care and maintenance of your Cassina products.
- The materials are divided into different categories; each one is accompanied by its own information sheet with instructions, preventative measures and methods for cleaning.
DETAIL
Between 1940 and 1942, Charlotte Perriand was active in Japan, tasked by the former Ministry of Commerce and Industry with defining the new directions and strategies to impart to industrial production in the Land of the Rising Sun.
The Vase à fleurs échancré dates back to this creative period that saw the pioneer of modernity engaged in an exchange of views with the Asian artisan tradition and its key players. The vase is made entirely of glass blown in a cast-iron mould and then reworked by hand by skilled artisans. The latter step gives shape to deliberately uneven lines that emphasise the uniqueness of the product.
The generous thickness of the rounded border further accentuates the sophisticated tactile nature of the vase. Vase à fleurs échancré is available in three different colour options – transparent, yellow and blue and, exclusively online, in emerald green.
