Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Mushroom Armchair, Model 560

Preferred Title: 
Mushroom Armchair, Model 560
Alternate Title: 
Fauteuil 560
Image View: 
Chair on exhibit (blue chair in the foreground)
Creator: 
Artifort (Firm) (Dutch furniture manufacturer, begun 1928); Pierre Paulin (French designer, 1927-2009)
Location: 
repository: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, Île-de-France, France) AM 1993-1-404
Location Note: 
Place Georges-Pompidou
GPS: 
+48.860653+2.352411
Date: 
1959 (design)
Cultural Context: 
European
Style Period: 
Modernist; Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
chair (furniture form)
Classification: 
furnishings
Material: 
steel tubing; Polyurethane foam; wool crepe fabric
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurements: 
69 cm (height) x 80 cm (width) x 88 cm (depth)
Description: 
The chair, which swivels, is made of a steel tubing frame padded with Polyurethane foam and covered with a fabric "skin" made of wool crepe and Spandex. It was designed for and manufactured by Artifort, a Dutch company. The model is still being produced by Artifort. Apart from furniture, Paulin also designed interiors for the French presidents Pompidou and Mitterrand in the Elysée Palace in Paris. (Source: Centre Pompidou [website]; http://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier: 
8A1-PAULIN-F560-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.