Image source: Cassina — Nuage à Plots Bookcase
© Cassina and the respective rights holders. Quoted to accompany INTEBEE's independent design commentary and research.
Nuage à Plots Bookcase
Charlotte Perriand's modular oak and aluminium bookcase, free-standing or wall-mounted.
2170 × 1640 × 340 mm
1952
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Description
Overview
Nuage à Plots is a bookcase by Charlotte Perriand, free-standing or wall-mounted, in oak-veneered shelves and aluminium plots. Its design year on the page is 1952.
Construction
The page lists adjustable feet, aluminium plots and oak-veneered blockboard shelves. Tensioning rods and fixing anchors hold the system together.
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Specifications
- 536 01/02: 217 cm wide, 34 cm deep, 164 cm high, free-standing
- 536 11/12: 240 cm wide, 34 cm deep, 205 cm high, free-standing
- 536 31/32: 292 cm wide, 34 cm deep, 111 cm high, suspended
Story
Floating shelves in Kyoto
Page and sheet say Perriand was inspired, as for the original Nuage, by floating shelves on the walls of the Imperial Palace in Kyoto.
What differs
The page and sheet name two differences from the original: a single top depth of 33.5 cm, and exposed plots of curved aluminium in place of sides, back and sliding doors.
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Indochine Chaise Longue
Perriand's armrest chaise longue, designed in Vietnam in 1943, in painted tubular steel.
LC8 Tabouret tournant
Swivel stool by Charlotte Perriand with a chrome steel frame and circular-material padding.
LC9 Tabouret
Stool by Charlotte Perriand with a chrome tubular steel frame and a rattan or leather seat.
LC7 Swivel Chair
Swivel armchair with a padded backrest and round seat, designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1927.
Collection
Cassina iMaestri Collection
Cassina's iMaestri Collection, begun in 1965 with Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, since joined by Rietveld, Albini, Ponti and Eames.
