Starting from the necessity of illuminating the faces reflected in the mirror of a cabinet designed for the famous French glassworks Boussois, in 1965 Charlotte Perriand designed the wall-mounted version of the Lampe de Bureau, later transformed into a table lamp. Now the collection expands with the reading version. The grey steel stem is anchored to a lifted, almost suspended, darker base. The translucid pressed glass diffuser is available in the finishes green, red, blue mare, blue grey, yellow and matt white outside, while on the inside the white finish preserves the natural colour of the light.
She was an architect, designer, as well as an enthusiastic hiker and skier, a visionary, an independent woman and a global traveller. From the early decades of the 20th century, she revisited the concept of design and its aesthetic values, giving life to contemporary design through timeless, iconic and authentic objects that bear witness to modern times.