OLIVIER MOURGUE, FLOORLAMP 2093, DISDEROT ED., 1967

MOURGUE Olivier (1939-)

Three-light floor lamp 2093, Disderot éditeur, France, 1967 - Rare white version

Lacquered metal, anodized aluminum and chromed metal, silver-capped bulb

Height 155 x Diam. base 25 cm

Ref. 175

Literature:

Commercial catalogue Disderot, 1970

Biography:

Winner of the First International Design Award and Grand Prix national de la création industrielle, Olivier Mourgue is a graduate of the École Boulle. He enrolled at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and, while still a student, designed the Joker seating range in 1959 for the publisher Airborne, with whom he collaborated for almost 20 years.

In 1964, in the same vein, he designed the Whist range in steel blade and black leather, of which we offer here a rare chaise longue in silvered leather, complete with chaise longue and ottoman.
The following year, he innovated with the Djinn range, which proved a great success with the public. The models were selected by Standley Kubrick to equip the space station in his film 2001: “A Space Odyssey”, and now feature in the permanent collection of New York's MoMA.

Collaboration with the firm gives it unprecedented industrial support. He is the symbol of the Airborne brand. After developing the "Joker", "Whist", "Djinn" and "Montréal" series, he set out in search of a creation that would apply his research into nomadism and living close to the ground. With this in mind, in 1968 he designed the anthropomorphic "Bouloum" chaise longue in two versions: outside in fiberglass and inside covered in fabric.

A close friend of Jean Coural, administrator of the Mobilier National, he was commissioned by the institution's Atelier de recherche et création that same year to design the cafeteria at the Maison de la Culture in Rennes, in collaboration with Pierre Paulin. He designed a "cafeteria unit" and the famous Caddie chair, which was produced in small series by Erbos solely for the project, without being edited.