The Indochine chair was first conceived of during Perriand’s time in Vietnam during World War II – envisioned as an adaptation of the designer’s collaborative LC 7 swivel chair that was originally designed as a dining chair for the Villa Church in 1928 and exhibited at the 1929 Salon d’Automne with a number of collaborative pieces with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. With the Ombra Tokyo chair, Charlotte Perriand came up with an iconic piece with great visual appeal and exquisite refinement, conjured from a single sheet of oak plywood, cut, folded and curved to evoke the Japanese origami tradition.
Its iconic and versatile shape derives from the need to rationalise serial production by using common elements. This chair was first shown in … The LC8 stool takes its inspiration from the swivel chair designed in 1927 by Charlotte Perriand for her own apartment in the Place Saint-Sulpice in Paris, and was shown at the 1929 Salon d’Automne, as part of a collection co-designed with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. 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.