Malouin Philippe
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
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21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sectional Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sectional Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Armchairs
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sectional Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sectional Sofas
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21st Century and Contemporary Table Lamps
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21st Century and Contemporary Table Lamps
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21st Century and Contemporary Table Lamps
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
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21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Modern Stools
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
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21st Century and Contemporary American Chandeliers and Pendants
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Philippe Malouin for sale on 1stDibs
Canada-born and London-based designer Philippe Malouin imbues his functional modern furniture with whimsical touches of personality. His sinuous sofas and armchairs covered in soft upholstery and irregular, tapestry-like rugs, which are inspired by wax crayon drawings, all play with the visual and tactile senses.
Malouin earned a bachelor’s degree from the Design Academy Eindhoven. He also studied at the Université de Montréal in Canada and L'École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in Paris. After graduation, he worked for London furniture designer Tom Dixon before opening his own studio in 2009.
In his design studio, Malouin opted for a broad focus that includes everything from chairs and tables to rugs, light fixtures and decorative objects. He enjoys using natural materials like wool and combining them with striking geometric forms. Every piece created by Malouin, whether furniture or decor, leaves a lasting impression.
In 2012, Malouin collaborated with six prominent London-based designers on a project for the London Design Festival. Called “Seven Designers for Seven Dials,” it featured aerial installations above the streets of the Seven Dials shopping district. From 2012 to 2015, Malouin taught at the Royal College of Art in London.
In 2018, Malouin celebrated 10 years in furniture design with an exhibition in Hyères, France. In 2019, he made headlines with the release of his Industrial Office collection, which featured experimental materials such as dyed nylon and polyurethane-coated steel. He followed this up at Milan Design Week 2022 with a military bed-inspired camp chair that is simple in appearance but big on comfort.
Malouin boasts an impressive client list, including Nike, Kvadrat, Vaarnii, Resident, Ace Hotel, Aesop, Established & Sons and Umbra Shift. He is a recipient of the W Hotels Designer of the Future Award and the Wallpaper* Design Award for Best Use of Material. He lives and works in London and is represented by Salon 94 in New York City.
On 1stDibs, find Philippe Malouin seating, carpets, wall decorations and more.
A Close Look at Modern Furniture
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.