Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999) was a French designer and architect born in Paris to a family of clothesmakers. She studied at the École de l'Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs from 1920 to 1925, and in 1927, after her "Bar sous le toit" (Bar under the roof) drew attention at the Salon d'Automne, she began working with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, leading interior equipment at their studio for ten years. Simplicity, functionality and modularity defined her work, which includes the B 301 sling-back armchair, the Grand Confort armchair and the B 306 chaise longue. In 1940–42 she served as an adviser in Japan, where traditional materials and an "art of living" shaped her later practice, and she went on to collaborate with Jean Prouvé. Her monumental project for the Les Arcs ski resort in Savoie was the high point of her research on collective living. LACMA's "The Kitchen and Its Discontents" presents her 1948–50 kitchen with Le Corbusier for L'Unité d'Habitation in Marseille.
