BORIS VIAN MUSICAL CHAIR, 2015

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50 pieces
Exclusive French Cliché
Handcrafted in France

The story behind the production of this chair by PERFECT DOCUMENTS is quite a singular one. Whilst flicking through the biography dedicated to Boris Vian in the BIZARRE magazine (éditions J.J. Pauvert at a bookstand in Paris), Thomas Mailaender discovered a published drawing and photo of the writer’s chair. Curious of it’s form, the two founders of PERFECT DOCUMENTS got in touch with Boris Vian’s estate without knowing that the chair was still there in the writer’s apartment. From Boris Vian’s original drawings found in the estates archive and the numerous anecdotes, they discovered that Vian had imagined a chair in the shape of a star, with a slightly elevated seat leaving room for his long legs when playing the lyra-guitar. He produced the chair by using lengths of pine wood assembled by nails and held together by hemp rope. Always enthusiastic at the idea of collaborating with innovative artists and creators, Nicole Bertolt and Patrick Vian naturally and kindly gave their agreement for the contemporary production of an object imagined 60 years ago. PERFECT DOCUMENTS therefore produced a facsimile named “Chaise Musicale” (musical-chair) in the Ateliers Antoine Daniel as an homage to the passion the artist devoted to music.

Object information :

Walnut wood and rope

47 cm x 55 cm x 107 cm

. Limited edition of 50 pieces

. Handcrafted in France 

. Exclusive to French Cliché

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Created by Perfect Document
Named as an homage to the exhibition “Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art” (1935) in New-York which presented a selection of photographs c onsidered by certain art historians as “perfect documents”, this venture specialises in the production of quality furniture in limited edition. ...see more
Made by ATELIER BAPTISTE & JAINA
Since 2017, Baptiste Sévin and Jaïna Ennequin have formed Atelier Baptiste & Jaïna. The ceramist duo, based in France, is inspired by nature a nd the theater. In 2019, they won the "Young Creator" prize at the Biennale Internationale de Céramique Vallauris in partnership with the Martell Foundation, where they carried out a residency the following year. Since then, they have multiplied personal in-situ exhibitions in chapels and abbeys. ...see more