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Geneviève Dangles (b. 1929) is a French designer who maintained an independent voice in what was originally a male-dominated field. She is also known for her mid-century modern furniture lines created with her partner, Christian Defrance, for companies like Burov. The couple also worked on major interior design projects, including primary schools in France and planes for Sud Aviation.
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The Amoeba Rocking Chair (aka Amoeba Rocker) is named for its continuous, concave arched organic form that evokes the amorphous, single-celled organism.
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The undulating form of Mathias Bengtsson’s plywood Slice Armchair is inspired by cutting-edge technology and organic forms found in nature. Bengtsson initiated the design in 1999 and originally executed it in clay. He then used a computer to analyze the shape and precision-cut hundreds of plywood slices, each a unique shape and just a few millimeters thick, which he stacked and laminated to form the sculptural chair.
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