In September, Cassina celebrates the 20^th anniversary of the Charlotte Perriand Collection with unique settings and inaugurates a series of literary-inspired talks that pay homage to the Pioneer of Modernity.

During Paris Design Week and London Design Festival 2024, an exclusive selection of unseen icons designed by Charlotte Perriand becomes the protagonist of the Paris and London stores and of an extraordinary window-installation. Here, the Indochine chaise longue is at the centre of a scenic representation that highlights the designer’s attention to materials and expression of lightness, surrounded by the disassembled components of two of her models fluctuating in the space.

The Cassina Store Paris Rive Gauche sets the stage for the talk ‘A la recherche du temps perdu: Le Monde Visionnaire de Charlotte Perriand’. Starting from the famous passage related to madeleines in the masterpiece by Marcel Proust, her daughter Pernette Perriand and her biographer Jacques Barsac will focus on the power of memories, sharing stories and design anecdotes related to the figure of Charlotte Perriand.

Pernette Perriand and Jacques Barsac will also be the protagonists of the talk ‘A Room of One's Own: Inside Charlotte Perriand's Universe’ in the Cassina Store London, where the visionary work of Virginia Woolf will be the starting point to discover how Charlotte Perriand was able to establish herself among the most influential voices of twentieth-century design.