OLIVIER MOURGUE - "CUBIC" MODEL ARMCHAIR

"Cubique" armchair with a chromed metal wire frame and a foam-padded seat upholstered in yellow imitation leather. Designed by Olivier Mourgue. Produced by Airborne, circa 1968. Olivier Mourgue (born in 1939) studied at the École Boulle and then at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. After several internships in Finland and Sweden, he began a long collaboration with the furniture manufacturer Airborne International in 1963. The Djinn series (1964-1965), made of polyurethane foam covered in colored jersey, was noticed by Stanley Kubrick for his film "2001: A Space Odyssey" and won the First International Design Award. This was followed by the Tric-Trac (1964), Whist (1965), Montréal (1967), and Cubique (1968) chair series. From the 1970s onwards, Olivier Mourgue began researching modular housing. With the support of the ARC (Association for the Reconstruction of the Architectural Region), he designed a four-room social housing unit (HLM type) comprised of mobile blocks for each function (1971). His research continued with the Mobile I workshop, a replica of his Parisian studio designed and equipped for relocation. Mourgue also focused on creating poetic, lightweight, and mobile objects: the Bouloum chair (1970), the series of toy-chairs: Butterfly, Snake, Man Doll (1973), and the Climate Boxes series (1974). From 1976, Olivier Mourgue retired to Brittany where he taught at the Brest School of Art. Design period, Circa: 1968. Dimensions: W: 82cm, D: 76cm, H: 63cm.