Clara Porset was an extraordinary women for several reasons. For a start, her education was different from what was customary among the women of her time. She studied at Manhattanville Academy in New York, at Columbia University, and specialised in design and architectural projects in Paris, with Henri Rapin, broadening her studies at the École des Beaux Arts and the Sorbonne.
One of her main objectives was serial production, which enabled her designs to reach a large number of people; she designed thinking of facilitating and making more pleasant the life of the destinatario, the design should cater for people’s ambitions in terms of well-being and happiness.
Her work philosophy was that the design should be absolute and precise, making minimum use of resource media to achieve the maximum result.