Incollect Magazine - Issue 8

20 www.incollect.com Design from the 1960s and ‘70s is enjoying new-found respect for its innovative use of materials and mod-style forms. This pair of rare egg lounge chairs by French designer Michel Pigneres dated 1970 have chrome-plated bases with Perspex (plexiglass) shells, cradling body-contoured cushions. ‘Trapeza’ three-legged tables by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Saridis, Athens, circa 1965. This design is a re-creation of a Greek table depicted on a kylix (drinking vessel) from the 5th century B.C. Tabletops are in walnut, supported by three bronze legs with reeded detail terminating in a lion’s paw. British-born Robsjohn-Gibbings was an eminent American designer whose commissions included the creation of furnishings and interiors for scions such as Doris Duke, Alfred Knopf, automobile heiress Thelma Chrysler Foy, and in the 1970s after his relocation to Greece, Aristotle Onassis.