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BIOGRAPHY
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PIERRE PAULIN

Been born in 1927 to Paris It was student to the school Camondo. In 1952, the first designs of Rock Paulin attracted the attention of the business Thonet, thanks to which it discovered and mastered again materials to the manner of American designers such as Eames, Saarinen and Bertoia. This is only in 1956, after replying to the invitation of Wageman rejoining Artifort, that Paulin found the means and supports of which it needed to realize its designs. Its productions innovating anticipated the social revolutions through the styles of life that they encouraged. At the end of the years 60, Paulin collaborated with the National Furniture, all while renovating the wing Denon of the museum of the Louvre, the private apartments of Georges Pompidou to the Elysée and while creating furniture for the presidential office of François Mitterrand in 1983. Although these prestigious projects contributed to his fame, of other designs, nevertheless, allowed the public to discover the comfort of modern life. Future man, Paulin traced his way with poetic objects, forerunners of their time, and of which it rediscovered sometimes more than thirty aujourd’hui years later inspires again admiration. The characteristic of the design of Paulin lies in the used materials for the seat manufacture. These are padded of foams and dressed colored jersey.