The French architect and designer is getting an exhibition to match her stature, with 400 works by Perriand and her circle on view through Oct. 5 at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

Perriand lived from 1903 to 1999, nearly spanning the 20th century, and she made the most of her decades, designing buildings, furniture, rooms and objects at an impressive clip. She found a way to match the strict Modernist demand for utility and practicality with the elusive quality known as good taste.

Many of her works remain influential reference points today: her colorful Nuage cabinet (imagine a 3-D version of a Mondrian painting); the sleek chaise longue she designed with the cousins Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (better known as Le Corbusier) and Pierre Jeanneret, which was covered in a chic pony skin; her later collaborations with the architect Jean Prouvé; and the lodgings she created in the 1960s and ’70s for the Les Arcs ski resort in Savoie, France.

Hers was a big career, and now she is getting an exhibition to match her stature, with 400 works by Perriand and her circle on view at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris from Oct. 2 to Feb. 24... [+]