Charlotte Perriand – Eine französische Architektin in Japan 1940-1942

In this 2020 graphic biography from Reprodukt, cartoonist Charles Berberian traces the transformative two-year sojourn of French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand in Japan during the early 1940s. The single-issue work explores how Perriand’s encounter with Japanese craft and space reshaped her modernist vision, blending her Bauhaus-influenced principles with local traditions. Berberian’s warm, flowing linework captures both the period’s aesthetic and the intellectual exchange between cultures, offering a focused portrait of a pivotal chapter in design history.