FROM APRIL 8-13 AT PADIGLIONE  VISCONTI IN MILAN SAINT LAURENT AND ANTHONY VACCARELLO PRESENT AN EXCLUSIVE COLLABORATION WITH CHARLOTTE PERRIAND ON THE OCCASION OF MILAN DESIGN WEEK. “SAINT LAURENT - CHARLOTTE PERRIAND” EXHIBITION WILL SHOWCASE FOUR EXCEPTIONAL FURNITURE DESIGNS BY PERRIAND, DATING FROM 1943 TO 1967. THE PERRIAND DESIGNS SELECTED BY VACCARELLO EXISTED ONLY AS PROTOTYPES OR SKETCHES UNTIL NOW. SAINT LAURENT HAS CAREFULLY REPRODUCED AND REISSUED THEM IN LIMITED EDITIONS ON A MADE-TO-ORDER BASIS.

ON THIS OCCASION, THE SAINT LAURENT EDITIONS KIOSK ON PIAZZA SAN BABILA WILL CARRY A SPECIAL VOLUME OF PERRIAND’S VISIONARY PHOTOGRAPHS AS WELL AS A CATALOGUE OF THE NEW FURNITURE COLLECTION.   REGISTER TO BOOK A VISIT TO THE SAINT LAURENT-CHARLOTTE PERRIAND EXHIBITION IN MILAN.

Between Heritage and Innovation PERRIAND ORIGINALLY CREATED THREE OF THE PIECES FOR HER OWN HOMES AROUND THE GLOBE (‘BIBLIOTHÈQUE RIO DE JANEIRO’ AND ‘FAUTEUIL VISITEUR INDOCHINE’) AND FOR A DIPLOMAT’S RESIDENCE IN PARIS (‘CANAPÉ DE LA RÉSIDENCE DE L'AMBASSADEUR DU JAPON’). KNOWN TO DATE ONLY FROM A SMALL MAQUETTE ON PERRIAND’S DESK, THE ‘TABLE MILLE-FEUILLES’ HAS BEEN PRODUCED IN FULL SCALE FOR THE FIRST TIME AS PART OF THIS COLLABORATION, MAKING ITS DEBUT PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK.

THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SAINT LAURENT AND CHARLOTTE PERRIAND IS THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF THE HOUSE’S ONGOING COMMITMENT TO HERITAGE, AIMED TO BRING IMPORTANT ARTIFACTS OF DESIGN CULTURE—PREVIOUSLY HIDDEN IN INACCESSIBLE COLLECTIONS—TO A WIDER AUDIENCE. IT ALSO HONORS YVES SAINT LAURENT’S ADMIRATION FOR PERRIAND’S WORK, WHOSE PURE MODERNITY ECHOED HIS OWN CREATIONS. HE COLLECTED HER DESIGNS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, WHILE PIERRE BERGÉ SUPPORTED IMPORTANT GLOBAL RETROSPECTIVES OF HER WORK.

COINCIDING WITH THE MILAN EXHIBITION, SELECTIONS OF HER PHOTOGRAPHY WILL ALSO BE DISPLAYED AT TWO SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE LOCATIONS IN PARIS: SAINT LAURENT BABYLONE (APRIL 09 – MAY 04) AND SAINT LAURENT RIVE DROITE PARIS (APRIL 08 – MAY 07).