Vintage Metal Cache Pot - Designer: Matthieu Matégot - Period: 20th

Vintage black metal planter, designed by the famous Mathieu Matégot, one of the most famous French designers of the 1950s. He particularly influenced the world of design thanks to his avant-garde approach to shapes and materials. Period: 20th century. Circa: 1950. Dimensions: total height: 24.5cm – diameter: 31cm. Mathieu Mategot is recognized for his innovative use of multiple materials such as wood, leather, glass, formica and even perforated sheet metal, of which he is the first designer to have adapted it to the creation of furniture. In 1954 he designed the Nagasaki chair, it will certainly become one of his most famous creations. Mathieu Matégot was born in 1910 in Hungary. He studied at the Budapest School of Fine Arts. He then visited Italy then the United States and decided to settle in France. He began his career as a window dresser at Galeries Lafayette. In 1933, he began designing furniture, notably using rattan and metal. However, in a war context he decided to enlist but was taken prisoner. After the liberation, he devoted himself to the creation of transparent metal objects and opened his own workshop in Paris and then in Casablanca. He exhibited his work in 1952 during the Salon des Artistes Decorateurs et d'Automne. He quickly achieved worldwide success as a designer and then as an upholsterer, as demonstrated by the presence of his works in major museums.