Key facts

Product:
Table / Chair
Manufacturer:
Phillips
Architonic ID:
4104239
Country:
United States
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

More widely known for his architecture and sculpture, André Bloc also designed organic, curvaceous pieces of furniture. The chair model offered here, which he used in his own Bellevue house in Meudon, was put into production in the early 1950s. An ad in a 1951 L'Architecture d'Aujoud'hui boasted that it was very light, easily assembled, and available in all colors. He also used free-form tables and desks in his interior, including the table model offered here, which he used in his dining room.

Blondewood, red-painted and gessoed plywood, iron (2)
the table: 26 1/4 x 82 x 52 1/2 in.
(66.6 x 208.3 x 133.3 cm)
the chair: 32 in. (81.3 cm) high

Literature:
Programmes Particuliers, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, October 1953, p. 34 (for the table)
100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Weil am Rhein, 1996, p. 119 (for the chair)
Museu do Design: Luxo, Pop & Cool, Lisbon, 1999, no. 13 (for the table)