Designed by Pierre Chareau, re-edited by Galerie MCDE
Curule stool with curved seat upholstered in Baléares fabric from Élitis, colour rosée de l’aube
Stool base in walnut with satin varnish finish and four straight legs
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Long before he built the Maison de Verre, his celebrated house of glass and steel, Pierre Chareau was already rethinking what furniture and lighting could do inside a room, and Upholstered Curule Stool carries that same conviction. As an ensemblier rather than a mere decorator, he never designed objects in isolation, but as instruments meant to shape atmosphere, direct light and choreograph the way a space is actually lived in.
This upholstered take on the curule stool softens the historic silhouette with a curved seat dressed in Baléares fabric from Élitis, in the blush tone rosée de l’aube, set above a satin-varnished walnut base standing on four straight legs rather than the traditional sweep. It is a good example of how Galerie MCDE’s re-editions let a single Chareau silhouette speak in several different registers.
“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