Objekto PMR Indoor Lounge Chair
PMR INDOOR LOUNGE CHAIR
PMR INDOOR LOUNGE CHAIR
Designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Made entirely of steel, the PMR indoor lounge chair is a work created by modernist architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha.
The metal alloy gives the illusion of a rigid chair, but its thinness makes it a flexible seat that bends to the weight of its user.
DESIGNER
PAULO MENDES DA ROCHA
Architect, designer (1928-2021) - Brazil
Paulo Mendes da Rocha is an international reference of the Brazilian contemporary architecture.
After more than 50 years of work, his modernistic and humanistic conception of architecture remains entire. About that he says: "Architecture does not wish to be functional but just suitable".
On the evidence of his education, his character and his works, one can characterize him, without any doubt, of a modern architect.
Beginning his brilliant career at the end of the Fifties, Paulo Mendes da Rocha quickly creates at the same time sincere and daring works.
Throughout his career, one can note no formal or conceptual discontinuity; nevertheless, since the creation of the Museum of Sculpture of São Paulo, one can observe a subtle transformation in his work.While remaining the same architect using the same means of expression, his work gradually shows a complexity which was unknown for him before.
His conception of architecture is very influenced by his elders Oscar Niemeyer and Affonso Eduardo Reidy and his affinity with Artigas is perceived in his capacity to create imaginative and unexpected space solutions
Graduated in architecture in 1954 (University of Mackenzie - São Paulo), Paulo Mendes da Rocha creates his own cabinet of architecture in 1955 in São Paulo.Two years later the project of the Athletic Club of São Paulo is committed to him.
At this occasion, he creates the Paulistano armchair: light and simple. In 1961, the Athletic Club of São Paulo is rewarded during the Biennial of Architecture of São Paulo.
Building up the Brazilian pavilion for the Universal Exposition of Osaka in Japan in 1970 (with Flavio Motta, Julio Katinsky and Ruy Ohtake), Paulo Mendes da Rocha shows a frugal style, against an urban sight where the aim of the project is not the principal protagonist but rather a natural consequence of the need to build a shelter.
This project is remarkable by its quality, its technological audacity, its simplicity and its great elegance.
Also notice that Paulo Mendes da Rocha was finalist in 1971 for the project of the Centre George Pompidou in Paris.
A minimal intervention with a maximum of perspicacity constitutes the signature of a great number of his works. Paulo Mendes da Rocha received the price Mies Van der Rohe in 2000 for the renovation of the Museum of Beaux Arts of the Pinacoteca of São Paulo.
The architect is a Man which carries a sincere interest to humankind, which has the role to create the most adequate and the most viable habitat possible. In that sense, Paulo Mendes da Rocha is a modernist; nothing distracts him from his vision for a better future.
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BRAND
Objekto
PRODUCT TYPE
Chair
COLLECTION
Gaivota
PRODUCTION
Made in France
USE
Interior
COMMENTAIRES
Assembly required
DIMENSIONS
- Height : 90 cm
- Pitvh : 109 cm
- Length : 58 cm
- Seat Height : 38 cm
WOOD
Beech Plywood
AVAILABLE COLORS
Three
DESIGN
The design of the rocking chair, its sinuous curves, irrevocably reminds the movement even statically represented on a picture. Elegance and comfort characterize the Gaivota.
WEIGHT
17 kg
ENVIRONMENT
Indoor
DETAIL
The Jury of the Museum of the Brazilian House Prize particularly underlined "the principle of manufacturing giving the product its great lightness" as well as "the aesthetic qualities combined with the ergonomic factor". For the sake of environment he chose the plywood manufacturing process in order to give value to wood trimmings. Furthermore this process allowing the creation of large curves, Reno took advantage of this property to introduce the movement in his creation