PIERRE GUARICHE, Vampire Armchair, Steiner Edition, circa 1953

Institutional reference

An example of the Vampire chair belongs to the collections of the National Museum of Modern Art – Industrial Creation Center, donated by the designer in 1993, inventory number AM 1993-1-629. Centre Pompidou — Vampire Headquarters.

Literature

Pierre Guariche Archives, Paris; Pierre Deligny, Airborne: design made in France 1945–1975, Les Modernistes, Paris, 2012; Lionel Blaisse, Delphine Jacob and Aurélien Jeauneau, Pierre Guariche, Norma, Paris, 2020.

Biography

Pierre Guariche (1926–1995) was a French designer, interior architect and architect, trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs and later with Marcel Gascoin. In 1954 he founded the Atelier de Recherche Plastique with Joseph-André Motte and Michel Mortier.

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A7 «Corb» armchair, Steiner prototype, circa 1955