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Conseil Slipper Chair Design by Pierre Guariche for Meurop, 1960s

About the Item

Pierre Guariche designed the conseil chair for the Belgian furniture manufacturer Meurop in the 1960s. The chair has been newly upholstered in a warm white bouclette fabric. Between 1960 to 1968 Pierre Guariche was Art Director of the Belgian furniture factory. His aim was to create armchairs and furniture for this company which was enthusiastic about the good taste and refinement of French designers. The were The "baby boomers" who were twenty years old at the time are the target group. During the 1960ies Meurop democratizes furniture as a common consumer good. The concept is to massively produce standardized furniture of good taste at low prices with the main requirement: the use of inexpensive raw materials (plastic, metal tubing). This concept was in line with the principles of Pierre Guariche from the start of his career: creating rational aesthetic furniture, produce them in series at reasonable prices, for the greatest number.

Creator:

Meurop (Manufacturer),Pierre Guariche (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 27.96 in (71 cm)Width: 20.08 in (51 cm)Depth: 23.63 in (60 cm)Seat Height: 18.12 in (46 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Fabric,Steel,Upholstery

Place of Origin:

Belgium

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1960s

Condition:

Reupholstered. Wear consistent with age and use. Reupholstered in egg-shell bouclé-fabric. Base in original paint finish with some scratches. New glides.

Seller Location:

Vorst, BE

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU7441233232162

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Pierre Guariche

The architect Pierre Guariche was one of the leading modern furniture and lighting designers of postwar France. Guariche can, in some ways, be thought of as the French version of Charles Eames: with his lean and angular chairs and slender, sculptural table lamps, he helped introduce a new aesthetic to the country’s interiors — and he was an eager pioneer in the use of new industrial materials and production techniques that emerged in the 1950s.

Guariche studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (the national design academy) under René Gabriel — a designer known for his quality, mass-produced furnishings, who served as a director of the postwar Ministry of Reconstruction. Two years after graduating in 1949, Guariche opened his own design firm, and he was soon creating pieces for numerous companies, including the lighting manufacturer Disderot.

Wood and metal were rationed in the years following the war and Guariche learned to do more with less. His chairs of the early 1950s include several designs with narrow, softly angular wooden frames; others, like the Tonneau chair, feature a single piece of molded plywood set atop metal legs. His lamps of the period are likely his best-known works. They include delicate compositions of slender steel tubes, and more flamboyant pieces such as the Kite lamp, with its curved metal reflector panel.

Always on the lookout for new materials, Guariche spent several years in the mid-1950s operating a firm making furniture in fiberglass and other plastics, along with Joseph André Motte and others. After 1957 — when Guariche was named head of design for the Belgian company Meurop and given a brief to create stylish, up-to-date chairs and cabinets — he began to look to America for ideas.

In the mid-1960s, Guariche produced several lines of deeply upholstered, rounded lounge chairs inspired by the Space Age look, and gave them names like Jupiter, Polaris and Luna. While Guariche always kept pace with his times, throughout his career he showed a consistent talent for producing elegant, eye-catching forms using a minimum of materials.

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