Olivier Mourgue, the chair of 2001

Olivier Mourgue (born 1939) entered cinema history before that of design. In 1968, Stanley Kubrick chose his Djinn armchair, designed three years earlier for Airborne, to dress the space station in 2001: A Space Odyssey. The scarlet red, organic curves, cocoon-like aspect: everything that since has defined French pop design of the Sixties. Mourgue continued with Bouloum (1968), a character-armchair shaped like a lying human silhouette, also becoming a symbol of modernist psychedelia.

The Djinn armchair and the Bouloum silhouette have become Olivier Mourgue's most iconic pieces. Edited by Airborne, these seventies seats are to be found for those wanting to bring into an interior that pop touch without which the 60s wouldn't be the 60s.