#brant design

This striking aluminum porthole door was designed by reowned metal worker and self-taught architect Jean Prouve circa 1949-a signature element in his post-WWII mass-production housing concept. Flanking the doorway, Carlo Mollino’s chairs embody functionality and the female form, while epitomizing Mollino’s style: the union of the romantic and the rational. The extraordinary “Follie” mirror, created by jewelry and decorative designer Line Vautrin, presents a sun with twelve irregular flames haphazardly extending outward, one, in particular, supporting a tiny, witch mirrored glass “moon.” The asymmetrical bordure inside the mirror mimics the Prouve portholes, while the black talosel flames balance the black Mollino chair to the left. 

-Jean Prouve, Door (1949)

-Carlo Mollino, Important side chair (1959) painted beech, painted brass

-Carlo Mollino, Tipo B side chair (1950) Resinflex, brass, tibular brass

-Line Vautrin, Folie mirror (circa 1958)