Designer's Chairs 3 - Pierre Paulin

The hotness has weakened lately in Japan. Autumn must be coming! 

Today we would like to introduce the work of French designer Pierre Pauline.

Since the 1950's, Pauline has been playing an active role in designing space and furniture. His extraordinary but yet body friendly designs are admired all over the world.

He started his career as a furniture designer in 1954 at Thonet in France.

In 1958, he introduced "mushroom" and "orange slice" chair when he was working at Artifort in Netherlands.

                                          < mushroom >

                                          < orange slice >

Many of the masterpieces were made at this time, which shows that Paulin has been attracting people at his early stage of career. But life was not as easy as it seems. 
In his early lifetime, he was training to be a sculptor, but ended giving up his dream by breaking his right arm through a fight.  

You can trace such experience and humanness in his figurative designs.  The two chairs introduced in 1966 are those representatives.

                                                < Ribbon >

                                                   < Tongue >

Both chairs look as its naming, still leaving room for us to imagine what other things they might be.

His first exhibition in Japan will be held in Ginza 
from September 2nd to 26th.  
http://www.chanel-ginza.com/nexushall/2014/paulin/

At this exhibition, you can not only see his artworks but also actually sit on them.

How about spending your time to explore Paulin’s innovations?