Janine Abraham (1929-2005), Dirk Jan Rol (born in 1929), Soleil armchair, France, 1958
Rougier edition
Rattan
Purchase courtesy of the support of Placido de Arango through the Friends of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 2010
Purchase courtesy of the support of the Comité stratégique, 2010
Inv. 2010.119.1
© Les Arts Décoratifs / photo: Jean Tholance
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Janine Abraham (who trained at the Ecole Camondo) and the Dutch interior designer Dirk Jan Rol established their agency in 1957. If the couple experimented with traditional materials, aluminium, plywood, and rattan, they favoured a new repertoire of structured and elegant shapes, such as the armchair Soleil which won the gold medal at the Brussels Unversal Exposition in 1958. This chair charmed Jean Royère who had the palace of the Shah of Iran furnished with twelve examples of it.