Chair by Pierre Paulin comes to life

In 1952, Pierre Paulin designed, for his own personal use, his first significant piece of seating:

- At home, I take two broom handles, lean them against a wall, and make a ring out of kraft paper. The trick was played, this seat was like a bag, he says.

This armchair in mythical leather, produced by Meubles TV in 1954 under the name ‘fauteuil 273’ (also known as ‘Anneau’) remains one of his most beautiful pieces of seating: a piece donated by Pierre Paulin himself can be found in the collections of the musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

It is in homage to this great designer and by reason of the distinctive shape of its base that Ligne Roset decided to christen this new chair, one of his last creations, ‘Anneau’.

The meeting of Pierre Paulin and Michel Roset in 2007 soon bore fruit in the form of two new creations and six reissues, amongst which the model Pumpkin, which was directly inspired by Paulin’s 1971 seating, designed for the private apartments of Claude and Georges Pompidou at the Elysée Palace. Pierre Paulin had been working with Michel Roset on a number of projects when he passed away in June 2009. Of these, Ligne Roset has chosen to bring to the public two new reissues (Antigone dining table and low table) in 2010, and now also two new creations, Allusions rug and Anneau armchair.