Year: 1925
Designer: Eileen Gray
Materials: solid wood structure covered with molded foam; polished, chrome-plated steel tube base; leather or fabric upholstery.
This armchair made its debut in the parlor of Madame Mathieu Lévy’s apartment in Rue de Lota in Paris (see mod. 423). Eileen Gray ironically entitled the piece “BIBENDUM”, after the “Michelin man.”
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