To discover previously unknown work by a globally renowned designer, two decades after her death, is to unearth a rarity. And to find that it is still relevant – perhaps more so – 50 years after it was imagined is to have hit pay dirt.

Such is the case with a series of rug designs that Pernette Perriand and her husband, Jacques Barsac, came across as they were preparing the Charlotte Perriand: Inventing A New World exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, in 2019.