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Arne JACOBSEN (1902-1971) - DENMARK - Egg chair - Black leather, we join an ottoman in Eggplant leather quite different, 1958. – L86 x W 95 x H 38/1O7 cm. Gallery certificate will be given to the buyer. Shipping to Paris 200 eur. Arne Jacobsen was one of Denmark’s most significant architects and designers. His large and diverse body of work has left profound imprints on Danish and international design and architecture history. Arne Jacobsen’s most famous architecture projects include Aarhus City Hall, the Munkegaard School, SAS Royal Hotel, the National Bank of Denmark and St. Catherine’s College in Oxford, England. In these works of architecture, Arne Jacobsen not only created the building structures but also designed the interior in every detail, creating complete design experiences in which the landscape around the building and the furniture, lamps, fixtures and textiles inside it were all part of a perfectly balanced and coherent whole. With visionary designs, such as the Egg and Swan chairs, the Cylinda Line tableware series and the VOLA series of taps and accessories, Arne Jacobsen’s influence reached far beyond Denmark’s borders. Fritz Hansen passionately produced the Egg Chair by designer Arne Jacobsen in 1958. He created this chair, also known as the Egg Chair, as well as the Swan armchair, for the Radisson SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen using high-quality leather materials. The technical robustness of the foam-covered plastic seat shell guarantees unprecedented comfort. At the time, this seat was totally innovative. Even today, this incredible shape, combining backrest, armrests and seat in a single unit, remains an extraordinary object. Awards – Museums The Egg Chair designed by Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen has received several awards and recognitions over the years. Here are some of them: Grand Prix** at the Triennale di Milano, 1958 International Design Award, USA: The Egg Chair has won various international design awards for its innovative and iconic design. Permanent Display at MoMA, New York. Timeless Design Icon - While not a specific award, the Egg Chair has achieved status as a timeless design icon, often featured in lists of the most iconic and influential furniture designs of the 20th century

Starting price  9500 EUR

Pierre PAULIN (1927, 2009) - FRANCE - Big Mushroom - Tubular steel frame, latex foam, and stretch fabric – L90 x W 85 x 67. ED. Artifort. Gallery certificate will be given to the buyer. Shipping to Paris 150 eur. Pierre Paulin was well known for designing chairs. He worked using foams and metallic frames covered with stretch materials, admired for "their clear lines, the sensual feel of their material or just simply for the way their shapes cradled the body." His designs were widely popular during their time and have influenced different designers Big Mushroom Design by Pierre Paulin An armchair for all times. Sensitive yet strong. Art that is always comfortable. The Big Mushroom® by Pierre Paulin includes the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Once launched as the F562, and has been re-launched as Big Mushroom. Designer Pierre Paulin distinguished himself with this armchair in the original shape and revolutionary manufacturing technique for the time. The idea for the Mushroom came to Pierre Paulin while he was watching women, shaped and sheathed in their swimming suits. He wanted the same thing for a seat. The inspiration can be found in the beautiful curves as well as in the seamless one-piece elastic upholstery. The Mushroom is the first piece of furniture that is manufactured with an seamless one-piece elastic cover method. Its original shape will mark the furniture of the 60s by inspiring many other creations with sculptural forms. The round shapes and comfortable padding are a perfect match with bright colours for an original and trendy effect. One of the best-known is the Mushroom armchair without legs from series no. 560, created in 1959, upholstered in foam rubber and covered in elastic jersey. Pierre Paulin got the idea when he saw women in swimming costumes, sheathed and shapely. So he decided to create a seat entirely covered in sheathing fabric to give it a smooth, bump-free appearance. The first tests were not conclusive: the jersey manufactured in France was too expensive and too fragile (particularly in the face of pets...). He started looking for a resistant fabric, which he finally found in Norway. Inexpensive, stronger and stretchy, it grips and holds the foam in the carcass without wrinkles. The seat was also inspired by Italian car seats, which were upholstered in leather or fabric on a metal frame, a design he continued for the 560 series. Inside the Mushroom, three rings form the base, one for the floor, another for the seat and the last for the armrests. The foam rubber used inside is the gommapiuma developed by Pirelli after the warThe Mushroom was the first seat designed to be entirely covered in elastic jersey, with only a thin sheet of plywood visible as the base. Paulin considered this seat to be the best he had made "economically, mechanically and financially". Awards Grand Prix National de la Création Industrielle Legion of Honour (Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur), 1989 Design Award Rotterdam Interior Design Hall of Fame, 2009 Museums Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Centre Pompidou, Paris Vitra Design Museum, Germany Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Design Museum, London Domainde du Muy, France

Starting price  3200 EUR

Christophe GEVERS (1969, 2007) - BELGIUM - Pair of Armchairs TBA- Reedition - leather, chromed steel, white nylon thread - H78 x 54 x 54 cm. Gallery certificate will be given to the buyer. Shipping to Paris 100 eur. Christophe Gevers created the TBA chair in 1959 as part of a project to refurbish the Taverne des Beaux-Arts, the tavern at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. It was an immediate success. In the same year, the chair was awarded Le Signe d’Or, the Belgian seal of quality. The start of the Golden Sixties marked the arrival of Gevers in the world of design and interior design. As a designer and interior designer, Christophe Gevers went on to create numerous interiors of renowned Brussels brasseries and restaurants, including the Taverne des Beaux-Arts (1959), the Vieux Saint-Martin in the Sablon (1968) and the Porte de Namur site of the Quick hamburger chain (1984). He also refurbished numerous banking agencies, as well as designing a large collection of furniture and lighting. Gevers’s work is characterized by the use of new raw materials, which became more elegant over the years. The TBA chair is a simple, tubular piece of chromed steel, with a seat and back in leather, stitched with white nylon. Gevers particularly chose a non-coloured leather that would darken and become softer with use over time. At the back and under the seat of the chair, he used nylon thread to stretch the leather. He frequently returned to this model, including it in other projects, so that we now see it in various chairs. The use of new materials, as well as floating armrests endow Christophe Gevers’s chair with a particularly modern allure and the chair, which launched his career, remains in absolute terms, one of his most beautiful creations. The furniture that Christophe Gevers designed has often been replaced or disappeared over the years, so this acquisition by the Heritage Fund enables us to preserve an important element of 20th century Belgian design. This chair has been entrusted to the Design Museum Brussels(link is external), where it will be in dialogue with other furniture made by Belgian designers acquired by the Fund in 2019, as well as with furniture from the 1950s that is part of the museum’s permanent collection, including work by Jacques Dupuis, Jules Wabbes, Willy van der Meeren and others

Starting price  2200 EUR
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