Gorgeous French home furnishings catalogue from the high 1970s, advertising cantilevered aluminum chairs, low-slung bulging lounge chairs, and white shag rugs in the most impractical places.
Near fine.
Price: $500.00
"Fantasmagorie de la matière, des formes et de la lumière, tout contribue à faire de cet ensemble quasi irréel, un hâvre de paix."
When you come home, this catalogue's text proposes, you should find yourself in "another universe": a deathly calm world of biomorphic shapes in greens, oranges, browns; lamps like mushrooms, chairs like eggs; smoked-glass tables as low to the ground as possible; floor-to-ceiling storage systems, ingenious beds whose drawers hide away any traces of human occupation or which fold up entirely into featureless walls. A few daring, futuristic tableaux in pinks and purples look boldly ahead to 1980; others confine their color schemes to silver and white, aluminum and chrome, shiny mirrors reflecting nothing into nothing; yet they all glow with the same low-lit windowless invitation of rooms marked by the artfully distributed signs and signifiers of humanity but unblemished and unmarked by human lives in the sunless, airless, endless caverns of the interior. Sleep forever beneath this yellow velvet coverlet, sink deep into the waving, climbing tendrils of the wild soft white carpet. Let the sofas devour you. They open their soft arms out in your image, they crouch down low to receive you. How hungry they are! Created specially "pour vous Madame, et pour vous Monsieur."
First printing. Paris: Segarep-Paris, [circa 1970s]. 8.25'' x 10.5''. Original black-and-white glossy wrappers. Illustrated with color photographs by André Abegg and Studio Emess throughout. 49 pages. Minor edgewear. Bright and fresh.
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