Metal Frame Pierre Paulin Tongue Lounge Chair in Pierre Frey
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Comfortable Artifort Tongue chair, designed by Pierre Paulin in 1968. Covered with the original Kvadrat Tonus wool fabric in the stunning fuchsia color. It's a piece of art in your room! The chair is in very good condition.
This curvaceous chair designed in 1967 by Pierre Paulin challenged the more formal aesthetics of the traditional seating form. Without legs, a single sculptural gesture makes up the back and low, deep-set seat. Forgoing the erect posture produced by the typical chair form, this model encourages the user to lounge and lay back into its curves. During the 1960s, conversation pits and low-slung furniture encouraged people to inhabit floor spaces in new ways. The chair’s innovation lies in the upholstery technique used to cover its undulating design. Amidst the sexual revolution of the 1960s, Paulin was supposedly inspired by the swimsuits worn by women on the Côte d’Azur, and wanted to re-create a bathing suit-like, tight stretchy effect for chair upholstery. Over a padding of polyurethane foam this chair is covered in a sleeve of elastic nylon stretch-jersey that fits snuggly and seamlessly around the chair’s curves and is fastened with a zipper on the underside. The upholstery therefore slips on as a piece of clothing. The chair enjoyed widespread publicity when it was chosen to decorate the French pavilion for the World’s Fair in Osaka in 1970, and as a result it is sometimes referred to as the “Osaka” chair. Paulin’s experiments with similar elastic fabric upholstery can be identified earlier, also in chairs made by Artifort including the “Mushroom” (1960) and the “Little Tulip” (1965). These designs celebrate Pop Art sensibilities in shape and color fit for the casual exuberance of 1960’s interior decoration.
