The Solvay stool, designed by Jean Prouvé in 1941, has today become a design icon. The charity sale organised by the La Source association,in partnership with Vitra, is an opportunity to discover reinterpretations of the Solvay stool by 50 contemporary designers. While for Philippe Starck, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and India Mahdavi the stool retains its primary function as a seat…
Philippe Starck
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
India Mahdavi
…other designers decided to divert the object. Studio 5.5 transformed the stool into a coat rack, while Jean-Michel Wilmotte transformed it into a table. Pierre Yovanovitch, meanwhile, decided to give it the shape of a lamp.
Studio 5.5
Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Pierre Yovanovitch
Finally, some artists decide to integrate the stool into a work of art, whether it be a sculpture for Marianne Guedin or a painting for Nicolas Marciano or Gérard Garouste.
Nicolas Marciano
Marianne Guedin
Gérard Garouste
La Source :
“Created in 1991 on the initiative of the painter Gérard Garouste, La Source is an association of general interest with a social and educational vocation through artistic expression, aimed at children and young people in difficulty and their families. It was born of the conviction that artistic creation can support social action to combat exclusion in all its forms.
