Iconic design objects
BY MARGAUX KREHL
While the clothing and accessories of our icons have long been coveted, it is now their furniture and objects that people are eager to acquire. 'In a consumer society that is losing its meaning, everyone is now looking for products with an extra soul, a story,' explains Vincent Grégoire, Director of Consumer Trends & Insights at the consulting agency NellyRodi. Owning the same armchair as a former minister or the console of a fashion icon allows one to showcase their taste, but also to feel as if they are claiming a symbolic part of these exceptional people, like a relic.
SIMONE VEIL’S SIXTIES SOFA
In 1974, Simone Veil entered the Ministry of Health, where she had just been appointed by Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.In her office stood, among other pieces, a lounge chair and a two-seater sofa designed in the 1960s by postwar designer André Monpoix. At the forefront of modernity, this former student of the École des Arts Décoratifs was a pioneer of serial production, creating furniture with pure lines and striking elegance. It is these two pieces that Source Édition has chosen to reissue as part of its first design furniture collection, presented from September 4 to 23 during Paris Design Week.Founded by Isabelle de Ponfilly and her daughter Joséphine Bursacchi, Source Édition seeks to (re)highlight major figures of 20th-century decorative arts. Manufactured in Italy, the two modular seats by André Monpoix were produced in collaboration with the Mobilier National, which holds the original models.
The collection will also be on view throughout September at La Maison du Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paris 7th.
