Pierre Paulin
Pierre Paulin (born July 9, 1927 in Paris , † June 13, 2009 in Montpellier ) was a French designer . Today he is mainly known for his organic armchair designs.
life and work
Born in 1927, Pierre Paulin studied sculpture from 1947 to 1950 at the private art school École Camondo in Paris. After completing his studies, he worked in the offices of the interior designers Maxime Old and Marcel Gascoin. In 1953 he took part in the exhibition Foyer d'aujourd'hui in the Grand Palais , making his first public appearance with his own furniture designs.
From 1954, the furniture manufacturer Thonet offered furniture based on Paulin's designs. As part of a stylistic reorientation of the Maastricht furniture manufacturer Artifort towards contemporary designs, the designer Kho Liang Ie made contact with Pierre Paulin, who subsequently designed numerous organic chairs and armchairs for the company. Building on wooden constructions, the seat shells of models such as the Mushroom Chair (1960), the Ribbon Chair (1966) or the Tongue Chair (1967) were each padded with pore rubber and covered with elastic cover fabrics that adapt to the organic shapes of the seat shells.
In 1975 Paulin founded the ADSA design agency together with his wife Maïa Wodzislawska and Marc Lebailly, with which he also implemented numerous designs outside of the furniture sector. For example, he designed several cookware for Tefal .
Paulin was also involved in the development of the first monobloc chair . He helped the entrepreneur friend Henry Massonet, whose company Stamp brought the first chair of this type with the "Fauteuil 300" to the market, in overcoming technical difficulties in production. However, since Paulin was aware of the dubious aesthetics of these inexpensive chairs, he made it very important not to be named in this context.
Paulin had made a name for himself in the course of his career by furnishing the private rooms in the Élysée Palace as well as the waiting room of the TGV terminal at Paris Gare de Lyon and the Aile Denon as an interior designer for the French presidents Georges Pompidou and François Mitterrand , designed part of the Louvre .
Honors and exhibitions
In 1969, the Ribbon Chair designed by Pierre Paulin received the Chicago Design Award . In 1987 Paulin received the Grand prix national de la Création industrial . In 2016 the Center Georges-Pompidou showed a retrospective on the work of Pierre Paulin.
literature
- Cloé Pitiot: Pierre Paulin (exhibition catalog), Éditions du Center Georges Pompidou, 2016, ISBN 978-2844267122
- Nadine Descendre: Pierre Paulin. L'homme et l'œuvre , Albin Michel, 2014, ISBN 978-2226250575
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monobloc the most hated chair in the world. In: Florian Siebeck, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, www.faz.net. May 4, 2017, Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Information on Pierre Paulin at Markanto.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paulin, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 2009 |
| Place of death | Montpellier |