"Mobi Boom:L'Explosion du Design en France1945-1975"
This book is pretty ok to good. I did have to work hard tofind 20 images that interested me enough to post.Most pieces were either too dryor I had seen them a million times before.The vintage advertisementsare the best, and I have included a few.I'm sure the exhibition was great,and I wish I had seen it.The book comes with a CDwhich I am looking forward to watching later.Pierre PaulinApartment for the president of the Georges Pompidou School(?)1971-72
My French is terrible,so please excuse these translations,they are probably all wrong,but I am too lazy to Google translate everything,and those come out wrong90% of the time anyway....Hugues Steiner and Sylvain Joly"Swany" chair Édition Steiner1970Janine Abraham and Dirk Jan Rol"Soleil" Chair1958Rotaflex hanging lamps1963So I thought these were American,maybe they are... anyone knowfor sure?1952 Pierre Disderot shop advertisementfeaturing the amazing Pierre Guariche floor lamp.I watched some numbskull buy oneof these in front of me at the Kane County Flea Market for nothingyears ago. It still make me sick to this daythinking about it....Serge Mouille Lamps1956Now these are the lamps you should havebeen buying back then,fuck the Rotaflex and even the Guariche.If I had a time machine....Michel BuffetTable lampÉdition Luminalite1953This is a sweet little lamp. And it is little,tiny actually, which makes me like it a bit less,but the design is so simple, elegantand beautiful....Pierre PaulinAdjustable chaise lounge"Déclive"1966-68This is amazing, reminds me of a caterpillar...Quasar Khanh"Apollo" chaise loungeÉdition Quasar1968I have a TON of this Quasar inflatable furniture.Who wants to do a show?Jean-Pierre Laporte"Ondes" series1973Roset furniture advertisementBernard Govin"Asmara" modular lounge chairs1966The French get started young non?How old are these kids in this ad?1966 too... PARTY!Roset furniture advertisement"Kali" lounge chairs by Michel Ducaroy1970Roche-Bobois showroomParis1975Knoll International advertisement"Culbuto" chairs by Marc Held1970René_Jean Caillette"Coccinelle" stacking chairsÉdition Steiner1957I like these more than I would expect.They are riffing on the Eamesbut doing their own thang....Roger Tallon"Lit Métamorphique Trapézoidal"1966Jousse Entreprise had this for sale at Design Miami/Basel this year.Wish I had been there...:(Parisian interior1972That is one big beanbag monster in the corner.Who designed that??I can't remember...Interior of the lobby of the magazine"Meubles et Fonction"Paris1971Pierre Paulin designed the interiorand the furniture.Demisch Danant replicatedthis ceiling treatment at Design Miami last year.It was the best booth at the fair. These are my pictures from an old post that can be seen in fullHERE.
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