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Charlotte Perriand joined Le Corbusier's studio in 1927 and worked for seven decades afterwards, on interiors, on furniture, and on the mountain resort at Les Arcs.
The Cylindrique is the plainest thing she drew for a wall: a tube, closed at both ends, throwing light along the surface it is fixed to rather than into the room.
It comes long and short. Nothing on it adjusts, because nothing needs to.
Left, the tube over a bed in a plywood room. Right, over a marble fireplace. It throws light along the wall it is fixed to, not into the room.
Charlotte Perriand joined Le Corbusier's studio in 1927 and worked for seven decades after that, on interiors, furniture and the mountain resort at Les Arcs.
Her lamps are the most economical objects in the Nemo catalogue. The Potence Pivotante of 1938 is two black tubes assembled into an inverted L — the arm is also the cable route, and it swings from a single wall fixing. She took the idea from a sailing boom.
The Applique à Volet Pivotant does the same job with one added part: a hinged shutter that swings across the front, so the same fitting gives direct light, reflected light or none at all with a push of a finger.
Founded in Milan in 1993, Nemo reissues lamps by Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand alongside work by living designers.
Franco Cassina founded Nemo in Milan in 1993. Part of the collection is archive work — lamps by Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Franco Albini, Vico Magistretti and Kazuhide Takahama, kept in production rather than left to history.
The rest comes from designers working now, among them Mario Bellini, Álvaro Siza, Jean Nouvel and Arihiro Miyake. The company is Italian and is owned by Federico Palazzari.
