"Aram just dropped something special for design collectors: an exclusive limited edition of Eileen Gray's iconic Bibendum chair, released to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its 1926 debut. This isn't your standard reissue. This is a numbered, centenary edition of one of modernism's most distinctive pieces, and it's the kind of release that serious furniture enthusiasts have been waiting for."
"What makes this limited edition significant goes beyond the anniversary stamp. Gray's original vision was uncompromising. When she met with Zeev Aram in the 1970s to approve contemporary production of the chair, she demonstrated exactly how exacting her standards were. After sitting in the prototype, she paused, considered, and declared it needed to be precisely two centimeters wider. Not roughly wider. Not "a bit more comfortable." Exactly two centimeters. That level of perfectionism is built into every Bibendum, and this centenary edition carries that legacy."
Aram produced a numbered centenary edition of Eileen Gray's Bibendum chair to mark the 100th anniversary of its 1926 debut. The chair features plump upholstered cushions stacked like inflated tubes on a chromium-plated steel base, evoking the Michelin Man. The centenary edition is a limited, specially designated production run targeted at collectors, priced at £6,750. Gray insisted on exacting proportions during production approvals, famously requiring a prototype to be precisely two centimeters wider. The edition emphasizes provenance and exclusivity and seeks to preserve Gray's original uncompromising standards and design legacy.
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