miscellany #2

Hello there again. Just some more images of a few favourites we've previously featured. There's a pleasing mix of textures and materials here - and a couple of flying chairs thrown in for good measure as we're quite partial of that photograph with the chaps playing cards and smoking cigars!

Images:
Sofa by Pierre Guariche for Meurop via City-Furniture | La Fonda base via Vintage Gallery | | Photograph of Verner Panton's Flying Chairs via boiteaoutils | Moulded plastic chairs by Steen Østergaard via Danish Teak Classics | Medium Armshell X-Base via Modern Conscience | Day Bed One by Another Country via Another Country | Dining chairs by Maurice Burke via Deconet | Wire stools by Cees Braakman via Deconet | Unidentified chair via le boeuf | Detail taken from seating by Friso Kramer via Vervlogenjaren

Mouth-watering

We seem to be spending far too much time over at City-Furniture and, guess what, we don't care!  Their latest piece of deliciousness is this beautifully shaped sofa designed by French designer Pierre Guariche for Meurop in the 1960s.  With its original upholstery intact, the colours are both contrasting and mouth-watering ........ and the shape so inviting.

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So, what of the designer?  Well, in the late 1950s Guariche became head of the design studio of the Belgian company Meurop.  There he created very elegant furniture for very low budgets.  Perhaps best-known for the lighting he designed for French lighting manufacturer Disderot in the 1950s, Guariche was also a prolific and innovative chair designer.  At the height of his career, Guariche worked mostly as an architect, seeing himself as an architect first and foremost.  However, his approach to both contemporary furniture and architecture was primarily motivated by emphasis on form and volume.  Overall, his designs reflect a commitment to simplicity and to creating furniture in series which can be industrially produced.

Credits/Images:  City-Furniture, Demisch Danant