LIMITED EDITION 8
SIGNED, SERIAL NUMBER AND CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY
STRUCTURE IN SANDED AND BRUSHED EPICEA
H 31.5″ W 28.3″ D 20.5″ SH 17.7″
CUSTOM SIZE ON REQUEST
MADE IN FRANCE BY ATELIERS RACINES
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Anthony Guerrée
Born Normandy, France, 1987
A French furniture designer, Guerrée’s design vocabulary combines traditional craft with innovative vision, and draws inspiration from travels, personal interactions, and literary encounters. His first collection, “The Chairs of Lost Time,” inspired by the characters of Marcel Proust, was exhibited in 2021 by Atelier Jespers in Paris. Guerrée’s process carefully considers the societal implications of furniture, linking social construct with decorative arts: “The line, the comfort, the proportions of a chair not only suggest a way of sitting, but also a range of attitudes and possible scenarios.”
Guerrée graduated from Ecole Boulle and worked as a designer for such firms as Andrée Putman and Delcourt Collection before founding his own studio in 2020
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SAINT LOUP STEPLADDER CHAIR
Anthony Guerrée read In search of lost time in 2013, a century after the publication of Marcel Proust’s first volume, and he was touched by the timeless and universal beauty of this literary masterpiece. Proust’s gallery of colorful characters is an inexhaustible source of inspiration for many artists. Each of the book’s characters possesses a singular way of being in the world, of behaving in society
Anthony Guerrée wondered whether he could design chairs that, like fictional characters, had personality traits and could serve as allegories or incarnations. Could he give life, as it were, to his chairs? By proposing a physical position, a seat can also convey a social position. The line, the comfort, the proportions of a chair not only suggest a way of sitting, but also a range of attitudes and possible scenarios. It is with these concepts that Anthony Guerrée explores the relationship between applied art and literature. He is dedicating a chair to each of his favorite Proustian characters starting with Robert de Saint Loup and Baron de Charlus
The Marquis of Saint-Loup-en-Bray known as Robert de Saint-Loup is the best friend of the Narrator
Inspired by this dreamed friend, Anthony Guerrée imagined a singular seat : a stepladder/chair paying homage to Saint-Loup’s funambulesque feat at the restaurant
To Boulle furniture, Saint-Loup much prefers the modern style and collections of Bing to the chagrin of his family who has more conservative and patrimonial tastes in particular the Duchess of Guermantes
“Saint-Loup“ stepladder/chair is a contemporary interpretation of the library scale. Its lines are fine and racy in the image of Saint Loup, distinguished and svelte character. The solid brushed spruce and stained black was chosen for its marked veining which highlights traditional joints of cabinetmaking
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