Charlotte Perriand (1903–99) is one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century interior design. Together with her contemporaries and collaborators, such as Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, and Jean Prouvé, she created many pieces of furniture we now consider classics, including the instantly recognizable LC4 chaise. Her pioneering work with metal was particularly instrumental in paving the way for the machine-age aesthetic popular throughout the 1920s and 1930s.

The second volume of this four-part definitive monograph on Charlotte Perriand, this book covers the years between 1940 and 1955, with Perriand’s extended stays in Japan (1940–42) and Indochina (1942–46). At the core of the book is the documentation of her fruitful collaboration with the Ateliers Jean Prouvé. This provided for the first time the technical means for Perriand to mass-produce her designs while also further improving Prouvé’s own work both aesthetically and practically.