Maria Pergay

Exhibited by Demisch Danant

Material Stainless steel

Dimensions 85 × 60 × 74 cm

Place of Creation Paris

Price Price Upon Inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

In 1967, Pergay embraced stainless steel, a material intended at the time primarily for industrial use. Encouraged by the challenge of a new material, Pergay devoted herself to softening and shaping the material that would eventually become her trademark. The elegant lines and refined surfaces of these early works set the standard for Pergay's future designs and marked her distinct taste for things at once traditional and modern.

Maria Pergay’s first collection of stainless steel furniture included the Ring Chair and the equally iconic Flying Carpet Daybed and was exhibited in 1968 at Galerie Maison Jardin, under the direction of renowned decorator Jean Dive. Her success was instant, and Maria was quickly sought after by sophisticated

collectors for private commissions.

The idea of the Chaise Anneaux / Ring Chair was conceived by Pergay while peeling an orange and remains one of her most celebrated and recognizable designs. Examples are in the collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, San Francisco Museum of Art, and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

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Provenance

Private collection, South of France

Literature

Demisch, Suzanne. Maria Pergay: Between Ideas and Design. New York, Demisch Danant, 2006, Similar example reproduced cover, pp. 28, 36-37, 82-83, 140-141 and 143.

Favardin, Patrick and Guy Bloch-Champfort. Les Décorateurs des années 60-70. Paris: Editions NORMA, 2007. pp. 266-268.

Demisch, Suzanne and Stephane Danant. Maria Pergay: Complete Works 1957-2010. Bologna: Damiani, 2011. p. 117, numbered 24.

Lindemann, Adam. Collecting Design. Taschen, 2011. Similar example reproduced p. 86.