Fermob Charivari Bench
CHARIVARI BENCH
CHARIVARI BENCH
Juliette Liberman’s original prototype for the Charivari bench featured a wooden seat, using the same steam-bending procedure traditionally employed by shipwrights to construct the ribs of boats.
For Fermob, she brilliantly replaced this with a metal seat. The result is a graceful, generously proportioned bench with an astonishingly light appearance, featuring curved aluminium slats which appear to be draped like fabric over the steel frame, flexible and undulating as if in constant motion...
INFORMATION
MATERIALS
- Steel base
- Anti-UV powder coating
FEATURES
- Knockdown
- Uv- Resistant
- Professional Contract Market
GUARANTEE
3 years
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WEIGHT
88 kg
USE
- 5/6 persons
- Very High Protection Treatment
for outdoor use
MEASUREMENT
Length: 246 cm
Width: 90 cm
Height: 83 cm
Seat Height: 41-50 cm
DESIGNER
Juliette Liberman
DESIGNER
JULIETTE LIBERMAN
Juliette Liberman trained as a cabinetmaker and has worked abroad, in particular in Burkina Faso at the Olorun Foundation (a centre that promotes contemporary African art and design) and with a carpenter in Ireland.
With her training at the École Boulle and the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, she is able to apply her expertise with wood and other materials such as lacquer and metal to the furniture she creates. In addition to the Charivari bench, she has designed the Iris Armchair and the Ginkgo Biloba (or Tree of Knowledge) bookcase. She has also co-designed a “hand cup” with Joachim Jirou-Najou and conference pulpits with Marion Biais-Sauvêtre.
Juliette Liberman has recently become interested in the concept of the seat envelope. Her responses to this problem are, as one would expect, warm, serene and inspired. The prototype Charivari bench, with a seat envelope initially made from wood, was her final graduation piece, which she presented to the ENSAD panel in 2004.
The design is the result of her exploration of wood-working techniques, using the same steam-bending procedure traditionally employed by shipwrights to construct the ribs of boats.
BIOGRAPHY
Born 26th April 1977 in Boulogne-Billancourt
1995: Baccalauréat L (humanities)
1997: CAP (certificate of professional aptitude) in Cabinetmaking
2000: Professional baccalaureate in Cabinetmaking
2002: École Boulle – Décors & Surface Treatment
BACKGROUND
1995 – 1997: Apprenticeship in the restoration of 17th and 18th century furniture in the Drôme region
1998: Wooden structures and sculptures in Ireland
2000: Taught marquetry at the Fondation Olorun in Burkina Faso
2003 – 2004: VIA des Écoles show: exhibited the Iris armchair and the Charivari bench.
2006: Created the Ginkgo Biloba Tree Bookcase
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