Charlotte Perriand conceived the present model dining table in 1935 for clients Paul and Ange Gutmann. The following year she included the model in the annual Exposition Internationale de l’habitation, organized by the journal L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui, at the Salon des Arts Ménagers, Paris. (Mary McLeod, ed., Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living, New York, 2003, pp. 77, 79, 162). Years later, on her return to Japan in 1953, Perriand organized an exhibition at the Tokyo department store Takashimaya, titled “Synthesis of the Arts,” where she again presented the model accompanied by ten "Ombre" side chairs. In 1954 Perriand signed a contract with Galerie Steph Simon on Boulevard Saint-Germain (which opened there in 1956), the exclusive retailer of her and Jean Prouvé’s designs. An installation photograph taken at the gallery in 1956 illustrates the dining table in a format that resembles the Tokyo “Synthesis of the Arts” exhibition (McLeod, ibid, p. 146, fig. 20). There are two Galerie Steph Simon prospectuses (Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, Un art d’habiter, 1903-1959, Paris, 2005, pp. 428, 432): the earlier from 1956 that illustrates in plan the dining table design and available sizes representing the amount of dining placements, then the 1959 prospectus introduces one further size measuring 199 cm long, the same scale as the present lot.