The differing colours of the five nesting tables recall a rainbow. The surfaces have a triangular shape, with rounded corners and a metal structure that seems to have been designed with a single pencil line. Created in 1951 for rooms in the university city of Antony, near Paris, but never put into production, these nesting tables can be used to create many different combinations, unfolding like petals along the arc of a circle, or in other variable arrangements.

Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) holds full membership of that avant-garde cultural movement which, from the first decades of the twentieth century, brought about a profound change in aesthetic values and gave birth to a truly modern sensitivity towards everyday life. In this context, her specific contribution focuses on interior composition, conceived as creating a new way of living, still today at the heart of contemporary lifestyle.