Paulin, Pierre
Pierre Paulin (French, Born 1927) Pierre Paulin studied stone-carving and clay modeling at the Ecole Camondo in Paris. He began designing for Thonet in 1954 and Artifort in 1958. From 1967 to 1968, he designed a series of chairs using foam upholstery and polyester seats which were developed by Mobilier National.
In 1968, he was commissioned to refurbish the Louvre and the following year was awarded an A.I.D. award for the Ribbon chair, model no. 582. In 1970, he designed seating for Expo 1970 in Osaka and in 1971, he redesigned the private apartments of the Elysee Palace. In 1975, he founded ADSA + Partners and the practice was joined by Roger Tallon and Michael Schreiber in 1984. He was commissioned in 1983 to design furniture for the presidential office at the Elysee Palace.
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Collectors Items: about 25% online;
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Over almost 30 years BeBoB is an organization, founded as a foundation out of caring about the 20th century design in combination with recycling. BeBoB follows minimum allowed list prices or less in new classics and collects over the years good industrial design objects as well as collectors items, which got sold for fair prices. BeBoB works as green as possible,brings a minimum of 10% of the profit to charity and is not focused on maximum profit money-wise and for that a good partner to deal with.
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Collectors Items: about 25% online;
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New : list-price, discount often starts from 10% and if you trade products you get an extreme good price.
Vintage / Bottom End ; mostly 35% to 65% of the list-price, often redone by our atelier. We offer excellent service on a beautiful location. And ... we'll try to find solutions in case you end up with any trouble with your purchase.
Collector's Items ; early produced products, more expensive but also a better investment.
We can find almost all Design Classics on request.
Second Hand: about 50% online;
Collectors Items: about 25% online;
More information by mail.