Trapèze

Trapèze

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Product description

Just like the Antony Chair, Trapèze was originally designed for the Cité Universitaire at Antony. Its name references the table's two strikingly shaped legs made of sheet steel. Together with the tabletop's broad edges beveled outwards, they underscore the construction's solid appearance solidity.

Articles about Trapèze

New exchange

New exchange

10/15/2020

COVID-19 and spatial perception: The first digital Vitra Summit addresses the ramifications of the crisis for architecture and design.

The furniture whisperer

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018

The furniture whisperer

4/24/2018

In the exhibition “Typecasting. An Assembly of Iconic, Forgotten and New Vitra Characters,” Robert Stadler lends furniture a voice. Let’s take a listen!

Voulez vous Prouvé?

Voulez vous Prouvé?

6/27/2014

At Design Miami, which took place in parallel to Art Basel, the French galleries presented an awful lot of Jean Prouvé originals. The icing on the cake: Konstantin Grcic transformed an Audi TT into a mobile living machine.

Prouvé in context

Prouvé in context

8/13/2012

The Lorraine city of Nancy is not just the city of Baroque and Art Nouveau, but the birthplace of Jean Prouvé too. And now the city is celebrating this relation with a series of exhibitions and showings.

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Fashion designer Virgil Abloh has passed away

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The new openness

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This year's 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen celebrates a new togetherness and shows how important personal exchange is.

She improved the world

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City for All

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Harmonious Contrasts

Harmonious Contrasts

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Manufacturer:
Vitra, Switzerland

Design:
Jean Prouvé
1950

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