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- 23 x 30.5 cm
- 248 pages
- 300 black and white and color illustrations
- ISBN: 978-2-9155-4209-7
- Text in French only
Steiner's industrial adventure began in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in 1926 with a comfortable Art Deco club armchair. At the end of the war, Hugues, son of the founder Charles Steiner, took over the business. Aware that the furniture industry must precede fashion, he addressed the young generation of French designers: Pierre Guariche in 1951, then in 1954 the ARP, a research workshop founded by Guariche, Mortier and Motte. Hugues Steiner's non-conformism gives him the freedom to recognize the formal requirements of these new creators and to trust them. From the Tonneau de Guariche model to the Diamant de Caillette chair, successes followed one after another. When, at the turn of the 1960s, Scandinavian furniture flooded the market, Steiner took on the tertiary sector, creating a research workshop from which legendary seats would be produced, calling on external designers to design revolutionary prototypes. Thus, from the 1920s to its rebirth today, a French firm has succeeded in the challenge of the series by establishing itself with models that have become historic.