There are four designs that Charlotte Perriand created between 1943 and 1967, three unique pieces designed for as many houses – including her own – and one that remained for a long time in the form of a scale model. Anthony Vaccarello, creative director of Saint Laurent, has selected them and put them into production as limited series to be presented at Milano Design Week 2025.

The Fauteuil Visiteur Indochine (Indochina Guest Armchair) was designed for the home of Perriand and her husband, at a time when she was Director of Crafts and Applied Arts for the colonial administration of present-day Vietnam: it is a combination of tubular steel, leather and rosewood, of which the only example had been lost and only a drawing remained. The Bibliothèque Rio de Janeiro of 1962, on the other hand, was the bookcase of their Brazilian residence and combined rosewood with the woven straw of some sliding doors, to juxtapose books and works of art.

The following year saw the arrival of the Table Mille-feuilles, or rather its model, as it was still too complicated to machine all the reliefs and depressions of its circular top, which enhanced the alternating layers of light and dark wood. Then came the Sofa (Banquette) for the Japanese Ambassador’s Residence in Paris dates from 1967, a large wave in rosewood with a rational line, a seven-metre monolith with five silk-covered seats.

Milano Design Week 2025 is thus a new chapter in the story of Perriand, which seems to have no limits in time, from the era of her collaborations with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret on interiors and furnishings that became milestones, to the years that made her a fundamental figure in 20th century design.

It is also the new chapter in a story begun by Yves Saint Laurent: the founder of the Paris fashion house was himself a great collector of Perriand’s pieces, just as his companion and partner Pierre Bergé would later promote several retrospectives of her work.
A link with the world of art in the broadest sense, which the brand has also cultivated in contemporary world, as evidenced by its collaboration with Donald Judd Furniture on the furnishing for Saint Laurent Rive Droite.