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Iconic – Les assises de Paulin
RÉTRO MOOD • Tous les mois, Goodmoods enquête sur une pièce iconique vintage, l’histoire de sa création, les dessous de sa fabrication. Un objet emblématique à chiner sur leboncoin.
Le fauteuil Mushroom, le siège Pacha, le canapé Amphis… Des icônes du design que l’on doit à un seul homme : Pierre Paulin. Son parcours est résolument tricolore : naissance à Paris en 1927, études à l’École Camondo, premières pièces éditées par Thonet France, décès à Montpellier en 2009. S’il faut retenir une date clé ça serait 1972 : année où il réaménage les appartements privés de Georges Pompidou au Palais de l’Élysée. Une consécration suivie d’autres réalisations présidentielles puisque Mitterrand et Chirac feront aussi appel à lui.
Si Pierre Paulin est devenu en quelques temps le designer chéri des présidents, il acquiert aussi une véritable reconnaissance à l’international, et ses assises enveloppantes intègrent les collections permanentes des plus grands musées. Retour sur la success-story d’un frenchy.
The enveloping aerodynamics of Pierre Paulin
At a very young age, Pierre Paulin dreams of a different life, off the beaten track. He was fascinated by his dandy and whimsical uncle Georges Paulin, who devoted himself to car design for the great coachbuilders of the time, Peugeot, Rolls-Royce, Bentley... Years later, Pierre Paulin followed the same hectic destiny but in interior design. He imagined aerodynamic and enveloping seats as desirable as a classic car, with sharp lines and modern materials such as foam padding, jersey, bouclette...
Pumpkin, the story of a presidential chair
In 1971, President Pompidou wanted to promote French art and make it known internationally. He asked Pierre Paulin to design a salon for his private flat at the Élysée Palace. At the time, Paulin was inspired by the organic repertoire of the Americans, notably Ray and Charles Eames which he admired for its purity. He then designed an inviting seat in the shape of a giant pumpkin, like a protective and voluptuous shell.
The Groovy, a gentle bubble
The Paulin chair family also includes the Groovy (or F598). A low armchair designed in 1972 for Artifort, inspired by the Butterfly chair he designed a few years earlier for the same company. Except this time, it's the butterfly that turns into a cocoon. This one is made from a super-cozy polyurethane foam covering that "falls back" so that the steel structure is invisible.
The Pacha, sitting in the clouds
Untiring, in 1975 Pierre Paulin sketched the lines of the Pacha, an upholstered armchair covered in curly wool with rounded shapes as comfortable as a cloud. But the seat was perhaps a little ahead of its time, as it was not very successful. It was not until fifty years later that the Pacha is living its hour of glory, finely reissued by Gubi and properly erected as a must have by contemporary aesthetes.
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Groovy armchair by Pierre Paulin - Artifort
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Pumpkin sofa by Pierre Paulin - Ligne Roset
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