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"Thinking Man's chair"

Thinking Man's chair, Jasper Morrison<br/> &copy;  madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Thinking Man's chair, Jasper Morrison
© madd Bordeaux - L. Gauthier
Fnac deposit, 2009 - Inv D 2009.3.6

Jasper Morrison tells us that after noticing a chair with a missing seat in an antique shop, he had the idea of using purely structural elements to make an armchair. For this model, the designer used steel tubing, which had already been used in the modernist chairs of the 1920s and 1930s for its technical properties as a resistant and modular material...

object n°10 (pdf - 46.57 Ko)