Designed by Pierre Chareau, re-edited by Galerie MCDE
Lounge chair upholstered in Eden Algues fabric from Métaphores
Sides upholstered in cotton velvet from Rose Uniacke, colour monkey nut
Available in two modular versions, left or right
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With Lounge Chair 1926, Pierre Chareau signs far more than a piece of furniture: it is a fragment of the singular vision of a designer who believed every object should extend the space it inhabits. Trained first as an engineer, Chareau approached furniture the way he approached his buildings, as a question of light, structure and proportion, refusing the ornamental clutter of his era in favour of forms that feel inevitable rather than decorative.
Dated to 1926, this lounge chair is upholstered here in Eden Algues fabric from Métaphores with sides finished in monkey-nut cotton velvet from Rose Uniacke, and comes in left and right-hand modules that can be arranged singly or combined into a small sectional. It captures Chareau at a moment when he was already thinking about furniture as a flexible system rather than a fixed, one-off object.
“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