Potato Chip Chair

Lesser Known Designers (Part 1)

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Sven Ivar Dysthe
Sven Ivar Dysthe

Sven Ivar Dysthe is a Norwegian designer especially known for the 1001 Armchair from 1959. His designs are firmly in the trend of Scandinavian furniture designs, mainly wood and fabric, sleek and mainly rectilinear. Many of his designs fulfill a commercial function in that they are expandable to sofas or quite amenable to use in offices or public uses.

His designs are not particularly ground breaking and follow many of the great designers of the past. However, his chairs are refined and very functional. Easily transformed by different colored fabric or by the use of different material, his furniture is successful in terms of ergonomics and style. The following is a few more of his designs:

Pierre Paulin
Pierre Paulin

Pierre Paulin (1927-2009) was a French designer who worked with furniture and interior design. His father was an auto designer who created a retractable hardtop. Unfortunately, his father was executed by the occupying Nazis as a member of the Resistance.

Starting out as a ceramicist and then a sculptor, he injured his arm in a fight and decided to attend the Ecole Camondo in Paris. He experimented with using stretchable fabric over furniture forms which led to his most famous chairs, The Mushroom Chair, The Orange Slice Chair and The Tongue Chair. The Tongue Chair is also known in the US as The Potato Chip Chair. Because of his experimentation, his chairs were very much unique at the time. Even today, it is not unusual to see his three major designs re-employed somewhere.

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