In the 1960s Maurice Besset was a curator at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, then based at the Palais de Tokyo. He commissioned benches from Charlotte Perriand to furnish the exhibition areas, with the aim of creating “the 20th-century museum”. Following the transfer of the collections to the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1977, those benches were given to various national museums. At the end of a long search, Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann has retraced their journey, wishing to reintegrate them back into the Palais de Tokyo as a reminder of Besset’s thinking about museographic matters. In doing so she underlines the ambiguous status of these objects, both furniture and museum items, while the reception counter also made by Charlotte Perriand has been reinstated in the entrance hall of the art center. Laëtitia Badaut Haussmann, born in 1980 in Paris, lives and works in Paris.