Olivier Mourgue
- Birthdate
- 1939
- Nationality
- French
- Occupation
- Designer
“I was born in 1939 in Paris. I graduated from the Ecole Boulle in 1958, this remarkable teaching taught me to draw and develop a great manual dexterity. […] After Boulle, as part of my studies at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts décoratifs I presented in a competition a chair that I had designed life size. […] This chair was developed in several versions under the name “Joker”, the first model published in 1959. […] For Airborne, I designed different models: Whist, Montreal, Cubique.
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In the years 60-70 and until the end of the 80s, in my studio, 9 rue Campagne Première, I developed a series of designs and particular projects for manufacturers, architects as well as the theatre and cinema:
Airborne, Disderot, Le Mobilier National, Renault, Bayer, Prisunic, film director Stanley Kubrick and the architects Lord Norman Foster, London and Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki.
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In 1968, I received the First International Design Award from the Institute of Interiors Designers in New York for the lounge-chair Djinn. The models had been introduced in New York by George Tanier and feature inside the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA. The Djinn chairs are also in the permanent collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
At that time, I designed in 1967 for Pierre Disderot – who runs a lighting manufacturing company – a series of Flower-Lamps in several versions: Floor lamp, Wall light, Swivel arm. […] Pierre Disderot was a very endearing man and a good engineer. […] ”
Olivier Mourgue, June 6, 2018.
