The popularity enjoyed today by the French furniture designer Pierre
Paulin traces its roots back to the Pop era, when Paulin incarnated the
Pop aesthetic perfectly in his unique and revolutionary chairs. It was
during the early 1960s, when Andy Warhol was exhibiting his
controversial Pop art, and Brigitte Bardot was redefining sexual
freedom, that Pierre Paulin designed his non-conformist chairs, changing
radically the look of our interiors. Innovative and yet steeped in his
times, a joyful Modernist, he stages the body, and covers his egg-shaped
chairs with mushrooms, oraange slices, flower petals, tongues, cough
drops, sea shells, waves, half-open lips and more. Sexy, playful,
exuberant yet comfortable, his furniture is above all supple and lively.
This new entry in the Dis Voir design series presents his work with
color images as well as critical texts.