Pierre Paulin: Life and Work

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Playfully rejecting the orderly restraint of midcentury design, the French avant-garde designer and architect Pierre Paulin (1927–2009) imagined sleek departure lounges for the jet set, perfume bottles for Courrèges, and unforgettable Pop-era pieces like the Orange Slice chair, the shell-shaped Oyster chair, and the Tongue, a wavy, low-slung chaise. Paulin’s signature innovation was once to wrap his pieces in colorful stretch jersey, softening them and concealing their inner steel and wood. Of their casual, kinetic sprawl, his chairs not only offered a call for participation to chill out and lounge; they also took the temperature of Paris within the late 1960s. Occupied with the probabilities of new materials, Paulin was once both a modernist and a traditionalist, a designer who took equal care designing atypical objects such as fans, razors, and fondue pots as he did outfitting the private quarters of French presidents Pompidou and Mitterand. This vibrantly illustrated book draws from in the past unpublished archives a wealth of vivid drawings, models, and photographs to reveal the restless energy of this midcentury icon, whose works are finding new popularity these days.


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