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| Maria Pergay - The Chinese Room |
“Maria Pergay: Place des Vosges,” the Chinese Room installation in the Hotel de Duras, with Maria Pergay’s Pyrite Table (2010), center, as well as the Mother of Pearl Cabinet (2005) and the Sabre Console (2010), sponsored by Demisch Danant and JGM Galerie, photo by Thierry Depagne.
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| Maria Pergay - Sabre Console against an antique chinese Cormandel screen |
Having a surrealistic and utopic air, the strength of 60s and 70s French Design reforms standards of modern living through an intriguing combination of expressiveness and functionality. With a signature Pop aesthetic sweeping throughout many of the designs, this period captured the world’s imagination with its innovative creations. Pergay has said it “looks so strong, hard, and cold yet is sweet and not sharp, and matches with everything.
One of the significant designers from this era is Maria Pergay (b. 1930). Pergay has been creating innovative and elegant furniture using stainless steel for more than 55 years. In 1968, Maria Pergay presented her first collection of stainless steel furniture at Galerie Maison et Jardin and established Pergay as one of the most innovative French furniture designers of her time. The visionary designer almost single-handedly transformed stainless steel from a commercial industrial material into a main component of modern furniture. She molded the cold and hard effects of steel into distinctively elegant and sensual forms and creating something altogether new. Pergay fans have included King Fahd of Saudi Arabia and Pierre Cardin who bought her entire first furniture collection.
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| Maria Pergay - The Chinese Room - Places des Vosges |
