Pierre Cardin Lighter

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the pierre cardin lighter you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each pierre cardin lighter for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, lucite and plastic. Your living room may not be complete without a pierre cardin lighter — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A pierre cardin lighter, designed in the Mid-Century Modern or Art Deco style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. You’ll likely find more than one pierre cardin lighter that is appealing in its simplicity, but Pierre Cardin produced versions that are worth a look.

Prices for a pierre cardin lighter can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $384 and can go as high as $1,200, while the average can fetch as much as $770.

Best known for creating groundbreaking fashion designs from the 1950s onward, Pierre Cardin enjoyed great success in other design fields, most notably furniture. Cardin’s chairs, cabinets, tables and other pieces share many of the keynotes of his clothing designs. They are simple, geometric, elegant and cool.

Cardin was born in a village near Venice, Italy, and raised in central France. Always interested in fashion, he left home at age 17 to train with a Vichy tailor. After the end of World War II, Cardin moved to Paris and worked for a succession of couture houses, before taking a job with Christian Dior in 1946. Cardin went solo in 1950, and quickly won attention for his novel style.

Unlike Dior’s famous New Look, Cardin’s clothes de-emphasized a woman’s curves; his breakthrough pieces like the Bubble dress had, instead, a sculptural quality. In the following decade, Cardin introduced bright tunic dresses and shifts, marketed as the Space Age look and accessorized with vinyl hats and visors.

In the 1970s Cardin expanded his design work into furniture, jewelry and automobiles. (Later, licensing agreements would put Cardin’s name on goods ranging from perfume to sunglasses.) Cardin’s furniture pieces — inspired, perhaps, by the rediscovery of Art Deco design in that decade — feature simple, symmetrical forms, lacquer and figured veneer finishes, and accents in metals such as aluminum and brass.

Whether you are looking for a vintage cocktail dress or a chest of drawers to keep it in, as you will see on 1stDibs, Pierre Cardin offers an option in either that is timelessly chic.