£4,500

Charlotte Perriand ‘Cansado’ Table or Desk, late 1950s

Grey laminated plywood top on laminated steel base, fitted one drawer of yellow plastic with impressed mark Modele Charlotte Perriand / Brevete S.G.D.G

100cm wide, 50cm deep, 75cm high

Charlotte Perriand designed a number of items of furniture for the African town of Cansado in Mauritania, which was conceived in 1957 to house the iron-ore workers of the mountainous region.