Here are some sweet pieces of furniture designed by Olivier Mourgue. What happened to the future??!
Olivier Mourgue was born in Paris, France in 1939. He is an industrial designer and landscape architect. His work appeared in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 a space Odyssey as the furnishings for the Hilton rotating hotel in Space.
I need his human shaped chaise lounge.
When I was younger, Lenny and myself came across one of these while negotiating the purchace of a set of Bertoia chairs for our first apartment. I have not seen another image of this until today, when I stumbled across this image and was able to verify the make and model of this lovely piece of machienary. I remember that the one that I saw was a fiberglass one, indicated online to be almost impossible to put a value to, due to the rarity. Apparently, even the aluminum production models fetch from $10,000-20,000 depending on condition. I wish I had purchased it.
