Eileen Gray - Bibendum Chair

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The Bibendum chair was designed by Eileen Gray in the early 1900s ...

but was largely forgotten until an original surfaced in a 1972 auction prompting a new production of this design classic.

It is an opulent interpretation of the modernist aesthetic and firmly holds its own in the archives of great furniture design alongside the work of van der Rohe and Corbusier who shunned Gray's artistic endeavours when alive.

The name Bibendum was penned by Gray herself who noted that the chair had more than a little in common with the character that Michelin used to advertise their tyres.

Materials: Cushions - Full Grain Italian Leather filled with flame retardant urethane.
Frame - Highly Finished Stainless Steel

Dimensions: 98 x 83 x 73 cm ( W x D x H )

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Product.Nr.: S462

weight: 35.00 KG

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Born in Enniscorty (Ireland) 9 August 1878 - dies in 31 October 1976 in Paris

Eileen Gray was one of the leading designers working in Paris after the First Worid War. She popularised and perfected the art of lacquered furnishings, her preference for its meticulous finish revealing a penchant for out-of-the-ordinary materials, in particular those used in japanese decorative arts.

Gray's work found a valuable admirer in the 1970s (when She was in her 90s), in the figure of the American collector Robert Walker, who sparked something of a major revival of interest in her work and which led to some of her designs being mass-produced.

Somewhat overlooked by the design world until this time, Gray is now viewed as an important and influential designer of the early twentieth century. In 1972, she was selected as a Royal Designer to Industry by the Royal Society of Art in London for her services to design.