Designed by Pierre Chareau, re-edited by Galerie MCDE
Chair pictured here with a curved backrest in walnut
Armrests and four legs in Macassar ebony marquetry
Upholstered in white canvas Canevas fabric from Nobilis, colour fossil
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Pierre Chareau belonged to a generation of French designers who saw no contradiction between craft and industry, and Galbé Chair is a quiet demonstration of that belief. He paired the raw honesty of hand-worked metal and stone with materials chosen for how they behaved under light, treating each piece as a small architectural gesture rather than a decorative afterthought.
The Galbé chair takes its name from its curved, or ‘galbé’, backrest in walnut, set above armrests and legs inlaid in Macassar ebony marquetry and upholstered here in fossil-toned canvas from Nobilis. The contrast between the pale wood of the back and the dark, striped ebony below is pure Chareau, a designer who treated the meeting of two materials as an opportunity rather than a compromise.
“No house in France better reflects the magical promise of 20th-century architecture than the Maison de Verre,” wrote architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff in the New York Times about the groundbreaking project by Pierre Chareau. Arguably one of the most influential works of modern architecture, the « House of Glass » stands as the most innovative example of Chareau’s genius.
The visionary designer brought modernity into interior decoration by his pioneering use of wood, glass and metal. By the mid 1920s he had joined the prestigious Société des Artistes Décorateurs and, in 1929, he co-founded the “Union des Artistes Modernes”. With some of his like-minded peers – including Robert Mallet-Stevens and Jean-Michel Frank – he befriended the most sought-after artists of his time, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Louis Aragon, Paul Éluard and André Breton to name abut a few.
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Linterno Fabric : St Moritz/Nobili