Metal Tolix Marais A Chair by Xavier Pauchard

Item No.: DS154
- Design by Xavier Pauchard
- Powder coated iron alloy.
- Colours: Silver grey, orange, blue, green, black, red, white,etc
- Tolix Marais, is one of the first and most successful examples of a chair made ​​entirely of metal.
- Metalworker Xavier Pauchard not only brought the art of galvanizing steel to France, but took the process to the next level by creating the Marais A Chair (1934), the quintessential cafe chair that was both elegant and robust enough to grace the decks of the S.S. Normandie ocean liner. It takes 100 manual operations to create an A Chair - no two are entirely the same - and the X-shaped reinforcement bar beneath the seat enables each chair to bear the designer's initial. "Xavier Pauchard's Chaise A is a perfect synthesis created by a man possessed of an understanding of raw materials - and the tools used to work them," said Serge Lemoine, former director of Musee d'Orsay, Paris.

- Related products: Tolix stool, tolix table.