Pierre Paulin was born in 1927, the son of a French dentist father & a Swiss mother from the Lucerne region. During his lifetime this designer has created an truly unbelievable number of pieces of furniture, the forms of which remain current even today: icons of their decade & for a long time known only to 'insiders', these days early Paulin pieces attract considerable attention from collectors, with the associated high prices. Pierre Paulin was something of a pioneer in the realm of all foam-seating, & yet describes this in a rather humorous light: "We dressed these pieces in fabric as if they were wearing very tight t-shirts!"