Charlotte Perriand (French, 1903 - 1999) "Berger"... Lot 22

Charlotte Perriand (French, 1903 - 1999) "Berger" stool, c. 1958 in solid wood with a slightly hollow circular seat, low tripod shape. Edition Steph Simon. Height 27,2, Diameter 32,5 cm. (old patina, traces of water, one foot loose and another with two old cracks in a knot) Provenance : - collection Serge and Lisette Merejkowky, photographer and CEO and of the Banque Hervet, for their apartment on the boulevard Pasteur in Paris after 1958 - by descent, Tours. Bibliography: Jacques Barsac, "Charlotte Perriand, L'oeuvre complète, Vol. 2: 1940-1955", Paris, 2015, pp. 349, 443-444, 467, 473 and 515. In 1948, Charlotte Perriand designed a high tripod stool for the hotel "Le Doron" in Meribel, inspired by a shepherd's chair seen during a walk in the mountains. Following a stay in Japan in 1953, she developed this variant with shortened legs.