Charlotte Perriand consistently took pride in constructing her own furniture, meticulously attending to every detail of its structure, which earned her a prominent place in post-war French design history.

Starting in 1927, she worked in the studio of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, where she was in charge of furniture and "housing equipment." Perriand was a founding member of the UAM (Union des Artistes Modernes) and a supporter of the socialist movements of the 1930s. She sought to put her ideals of communal living into practice, designing spaces for student rooms, ski resorts, and the apartments of the Cité Radieuse in Marseille. Her furniture was designed to meet the organizational needs of post-war living spaces, integrating seamlessly into the environments she conceived and adapting to the lifestyles and needs of their occupants.

Her furniture is characterized by its graphic design, which employs the balance and cantilever techniques that Perriand favored, along with bold color blocks.

Her style was strongly influenced by her extended stays in Asia (Japan, Indochina) and South America (Brazil).

In the 1950s and 1960s, she was one of the few women to make a name for herself in the field of architecture and is today regarded as a major figure in the history of modern design.

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