Charlotte Perriand
Architect and designer Charlotte Perriand was born in Paris in 1903. Between 1920 and 1925, Perriand studied design at the École de l’Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, and in 1927 he began running his own design firm. In the late 1930s he worked with Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, and the fame of his work spread as far afield as Tokyo and Indonesia.