Preferred Title:
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Mushroom Armchair, Model 560
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Alternate Title:
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Fauteuil 560
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Image View:
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Chair on exhibit (blue chair in the foreground)
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Creator:
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Artifort (Firm) (Dutch furniture manufacturer, begun 1928); Pierre Paulin (French designer, 1927-2009)
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Location:
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repository: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, Île-de-France, France) AM 1993-1-404
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Location Note:
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Place Georges-Pompidou
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GPS:
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+48.860653+2.352411
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Date:
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1959 (design)
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Cultural Context:
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European
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Style Period:
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Modernist; Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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chair (furniture form)
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Classification:
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furnishings
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Material:
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steel tubing; Polyurethane foam; wool crepe fabric
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Measurements:
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69 cm (height) x 80 cm (width) x 88 cm (depth)
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Description:
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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/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Nine
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Identifier:
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8A1-PAULIN-F560-A01
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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