Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Ribbon Chair 582

Preferred Title: 
Ribbon Chair 582
Alternate Title: 
Fauteuil Ribbon Chair 582
Image View: 
Overall view from above, front
Creator: 
Artifort (Firm) (Dutch furniture manufacturer, begun 1928); Jack Lenor Larsen (American textile designer, born 1927); Pierre Paulin (French designer, 1927-2009)
Location: 
repository: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, Île-de-France, France) AM 1996-1-3
Location Note: 
Place Georges-Pompidou
GPS: 
+48.860653+2.352411
Date: 
1966 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
European
Style Period: 
Twentieth century
Work Type 1: 
chair (furniture form)
Classification: 
furnishings
Material: 
metal tube frame; foam; textile; painted wood
Technique: 
construction (assembling); metalworking
Measurements: 
70 cm (height) x 105 cm (width) x 80 cm (depth)
Description: 
The chair is constructed of a metal tube frame with horizontal springs, covered with foam and stretch polyester jersey fabric (textile pattern by Jack Lenor Larsen), sitting on a lacquered pressed-wood pedestal. Originally commissioned and manufactured by Artifort, this model was reintroduced for manufacture by Artifort in 2003 and is currently being produced. (Source: Centre Pompidou [website]; http://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/)
Collection: 
Archivision Addition Module Nine
Identifier: 
8A1-PAULIN-FRRC-A01
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.