Introduction -- Early Youth -- Student Years -- To Paris -- Life as a Professional -- The Lacquer Cult -- The Great War -- Entering the Twenties: Rue de Lota -- Keeping a Shop: Jean Désert -- Monte Carlo and Beyond -- Jean Badovici -- Turning Point -- Toward an Architecture -- E. 1027 -- Life as an Architect -- A House for Herself: Tempe à Pailla -- Building for Others -- The Second World War -- Starting Anew -- The Last House: Lou Pérou -- Recognition at Last -- Epilogue -- Exhibitions -- Catalogue Raisonné