Lot 175 , Charlotte Perriand (French, 1903-1999) A pair of 'No. 27' or 'Meribel' side chairs

Charlotte Perriand (French, 1903-1999) A pair of 'No. 27' or 'Meribel' side chairs, the stained wood frames possibly in sipo, with turned cylindrical legs and curved backrest above a rush seat and flat-section crosspiece, each 75cm high x 42cm wide (2)

The 'N° 27' chair by Charlotte Perriand, often referred to today as the 'Meribel' chair, was initially designed in 1941 for the two-bedroom Tokyo apartment of Etienne Sicard, an employee at the French embassy, whom she met shortly after arriving in Japan in 1940. The first examples of these chairs had a crosspiece with a cylindrical cross-section, which differed from later models executed with a rectangular cross- section.
£800-1,200

Sold for £1,600