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designed for Palais Elysee, George Pompidou's private apartments, and edited by Alpha International
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Fauteuil vintage Elysée Pierre Paulin édition Ligne Roset
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Located in Basildon, London
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Pierre Paulin for Ligne Roset Red Fabric 2 Seater Pumpkin Loveseat Sofa
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Pierre Paulin for Ligne Roset Red Fabric 2 Seater Pumpkin Loveseat Sofa
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Pierre Paulin for Ligne Roset Red Fabric 2 Seater Pumpkin Loveseat Sofa
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Pierre Paulin for Ligne Roset Blue Fabric 2 Seater Pumpkin Loveseat Sofa
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Pierre Paulin for Ligne Roset Red Fabric 2 Seater Pumpkin Loveseat Sofa
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Pierre Paulin for Ligne Roset Red Fabric 2 Seater Pumpkin Loveseat Sofa
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Located in Basildon, London
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A 21st Century Red "Pumpkin Sofa" By Ligne Roset, France c.2010
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Pierre Paulin “Elysée” Chairs, 1972, Set of 4
By Pierre Paulin
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Pierre Paulin “Elysée” armchairs, wool bouclé and foam, France, designed in 1972, set of four
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pair of Pierre Paulin Elysee chairs
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original beige leather (color lighter in these photos) designed for Palais Elysee, George
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Vintage 1970s French Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Paulin Elysee For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal paulin elysee for your home. Frequently made of metal, fabric and animal skin, every paulin elysee was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect paulin elysee — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A paulin elysee made by mid-century modern designers — as well as those associated with modern — is very popular.
How Much is a Paulin Elysee?
The average selling price for a paulin elysee at 1stDibs is $7,140, while they’re typically $2,921 on the low end and $30,298 for the highest priced.
Pierre Paulin for sale on 1stDibs
Pierre Paulin introduced a fresh breeze into French furniture design in the 1960s and ’70s, fostering a sleek new Space-Age aesthetic. Along with Olivier Mourgue, Paulin developed chairs, sofas, dining tables and other furnishings with flowing lines and almost surreal naturalistic forms. And his work became such a byword for chic, forward-looking design and emerging technologies that two French presidents commissioned him to create environments in the Élysée Palace in Paris.
Paulin was born in Paris to a family of artists and designers. He initially sought to become a ceramist and sculptor and was studying in the town of Vallauris near the Côte d'Azur — a center for pottery making, where Pablo Picasso spent his postwar summers crafting ceramics — but broke his hand in a fight. He enrolled at the École Camondo, the Paris interior design school. There, Paulin was strongly influenced by the work of Charles and Ray Eames, George Nelson and Arne Jacobsen, as was reflected in his early creations for the manufacturer Thonet-France.
It was at the Dutch firm Artifort, which he joined in 1958, where Paulin blossomed. In a few years, he produced several of his signature designs based on abstract organic shapes. These include the Butterfly chair (1963), which features a tubular steel frame and slung leather, and a group of striking seating pieces made with steel frames covered in polyurethane foam and tight jersey fabric: the Mushroom (1960), Ribbon (1966) and Tongue (1967) chairs. The revered designer not only introduced new construction techniques to Artifort furniture but contributed fresh materials, Pop art colors and dazzling shapes to the mid-century modern era as a whole.
In 1971, the Mobilier National — a department of France’s Ministry of Culture in charge of furnishing top-tier government offices and embassies — commissioned Paulin to redesign President Georges Pompidou’s private apartment in the Élysée Palace. In three years, Paulin transformed the staid rooms into futuristic environments with curved, fabric-clad walls and furnishings such as bookcases made from an arrangement of smoked-glass U shapes, flower-like pedestal chairs and pumpkin-esque loungers.
Ten years later, the Mobilier National called on Paulin again, this time to furnish the private office of President François Mitterand. Paulin responded with an angular, postmodern take on neoclassical furniture, pieces that looked surprisingly at home in the paneled, Savonnerie-carpeted Louis XVI rooms. As those two Élysée Palace projects show, Paulin furniture works well both in a total decor or when used as a counterpoint to traditional pieces. His creations have a unique personality: bright and playful yet sophisticated and suave.
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With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.
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Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.
The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.
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With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.
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