Cansado Desk By Charlotte Perriand, Circa 1962.

Desk designed by Charlotte Perriand for the Cansado mining town between 1959 and 1967. It features a blue laminate top mounted on a black lacquered tubular metal base, designed to be robust and easy to maintain, in accordance with the requirements of MIFERMA's communal furniture. The desk is equipped with a side drawer made of thermoformed plastic, marked "patented SGDG," typical of the products made for this industrial program. Edition: Steph Simon, circa 1959-1967. Cansado is a mining town built in the 1960s by the Mauritanian Iron Mining Company "MIFERMA" to house its employees. Some of the furniture was designed by Charlotte Perriand between 1959 and 1967. Bibliography: -Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, The Complete Works, vol. 3, Norma Edition, 2017, p. 117-120, Furniture for Miferma for more information on this period.