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Publisher Note

In We Don’t Embroider Cushions Here artists Augustine and Josephine Rockebrune reveal a new and outrageous chapter in the legend of designer Charlotte Perriand and her famous master Le Corbusier.

50 years after Corbusier’s death, this book documents how his degrading view of women haunts the very chair his unpaid and uncredited assistant Perriand designed in his shadow: the LC4.

Throughout 192 pages of screenshots, uncovered through meticulous research on adult websites, the sisters Rockebrune explore the diabolical irony with which Perriand’s iconic chaise longue has become a preferred “fuck-prop” in the adult film industry.

Readers will witness how the LC4 has become the leather “altar” on which women of all races are systematically reduced to objects, good for nothing but whoring or - as Le Corbusier suggested to Perriand - “embroidering cushions”.

We Don’t Embroider Cushions Here was first published in 2015 in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier’s death.

Artists’ Book

We Don't Embroider Cushions Here

by Augustine & Josephine Rockebrune

Publisher
Release Place Paris, France
Edition 1st edition
Release Date 2015
Credits
Designer: Boris Datore
Printrun 500
Inscription numbered
Work  
Subform Artist Book
Topics Charlotte Perriand, Design, Furniture, Le Corbusier, Porn
Themes Porn, Design
Methods Archival Material, Found Images, Screenshots
Language English, French
Dimensions 14.8 × 21.0 × 1.2 cm
Pages 212
Technique Inkjet Printed