Bodies, chairs, necklaces: Lina Bo Bardi and Charlotte Perriand

Abstract

The article explores the crossroads of the trajectories of two professional women linked to the production of space: the Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi, who worked in Brazil, and the French designer Charlotte Perriand. The article begins by comparing two photographs and then investigates the performance of these two well-known professionals, their moments of exclusion, disqualification as well as success throughout their careers. As they both had long and diversified careers, we capture two moments when they produced the emblematic chairs, that they exhibited using their own bodies, albeit in a quite anonymous way, as an ergonometric measure.