Designed by Pierre Chareau, re-edited by Galerie MCDE
Barstool pictured here in black painted metal
Upholstered seat in moka leather
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Pierre Chareau belonged to a generation of French designers who saw no contradiction between craft and industry, and Metal Barstool 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.
Reduced to its structural essentials, the Metal Barstool sets a leather-upholstered seat, shown here in moka, on a slender base in black painted metal, letting the frame disappear into the room while the leather does the talking. It is a rare bar-height piece in Chareau’s catalogue, proof that his engineering eye extended to the most utilitarian corners of a home.
“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