Bibendum chair The rotund Bibendum armchair was inspired by the tubular steel experiments of Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus and the name of the chair originates from the character created by Michelin to sell the tires. It was created in the late 1910s for an apartment of Madame Mathieu Lévy, a highly successful milliner, in Rue de Lota in Paris. Eileen Gray, Irish designer and pioneer of the Modern movement in architecture, was commissioned...
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