Timeless and elegant, the Gubi C-Chair Dining Chair - Veneer is expertly curated with great attention to detail with a strong design language. Originally designed in 1947 as an innovative response to the tightly-spaced homes being built in postwar France, it is still as iconic today as it was then and will always be recognizable. Refined and practical, it is ideally utilised as a set around a dining table or as a stand-alone piece in a hallway, adapting to a variety of interiors, supplementing style and historic character to your home.
French designer Marcel Gascoin (1907-1986) was one of the leading furniture designers of the post-war era. He played a vital role in the reconstruction of France after World War II, where his streamlined wooden furniture, focussing on clean aesthetics and functionality, became the staple for 1950s French households.
Gascoin worked as an interior architect and designer with the French Ministry of Reconstruction and Urbanism to design and build homes and the furniture to fill them during the post-war housing crisis in France.
Forward-thinking for his time and with a strong social conscience, Gascoin’s democratic design drew lines between art and industry, converging clean aesthetics with rational manufacturing processes.
Today Gascoin’s work, unrecognized for a long time, has been progressively re-discovered by collectors, adoring his simple and striking furniture creations.