CHARLOTTE PERRIAND (1903-1999) - SUCCESSION X., MANTES-LA-VILLE Tokyo, model designed around [1953-1954] for Jacques Martin's house in Tokyo, fitted out for the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris (installed in 1963-1965), our work acquired from Galerie Steph Simon around 1960 Large (combinable) reclining bench. The three elliptical-section legs, the nineteen longitudinal slats 19 and the connecting slats, forming the seat structure, in ash. Used condition, minor accidents and scattered missing parts. Height: 26.5 cm - Length: 224.5 cm - Depth: 73.5 cm Provenance : Succession X., Mantes-la-Ville. Acquired from Galerie Steph Simon around 1960. This banquette was part of a complete set designed by decorator Nicolas Guérin for Mr. and Mrs. X., comprising a set of furniture by Charlotte Perriand (our banquette, two Berger stools, a table à gorges and a suite of chairs), a wall lamp by Serge Mouille and a piece of furniture by André Chetaille, presented under the previous and following numbers of this sale. Bibliography : - Aujourd'hui Art et Architecture - N° 7 of March 1956. Identical model and/or size variants reproduced on pages 76, 80 and 81. - Jacques Barsac - Charlotte Perriand - L'œuvre complète - Volume 2. 1940-1955 - Édition Archives Charlotte Perriand/Norma, Paris, 2013. The blue of the Tokyo model is reproduced on page 442 and an identical model is reproduced on pages 442 and 444. - Jacques Barsac - Charlotte Perriand - L'œuvre complète - Volume 3. 1956-1968 - Édition Archives Charlotte Perriand/Norma, Paris, 2017. Identical models featured in photographs from the Musée National d'Art Moderne reproduced on pages 422 and 423. - Charlotte Perriand, Un art d'habiter - Jacques Barsac, Éditions Norma, Paris, 2005. The blue of the Tokyo model reproduced on page 393 and an identical model and/or variations in dimensions reproduced on pages 403 and 405. - Collective - Charlotte Perriand, an Art of living-Editions Mary McLeod New York 2003 Publications Harry N. Abrams Inc, New York, 2003. Identical model or dimensional variant reproduced on page 145.