
René Herbst
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The last twenty years were the elastic steel
tube's furniture years. While Le Corbusier made a chair a
reglage continue, Renè Herbst has endowed his
model by a roping of elastic laces. Renè Herbst produced
chairs in his own furnishing firm in Paris, called the
establisement. In those exciting twenty's, Rene Herbst
was called l'homme d'acier. He has been one of
the formers to start the experimentation of this new material
in the furniture field. He was an interior designer. Herbst
studied in London, USSR and ltaly. He was one of the formers
member of the UAM (Union des Artistes Modernes)
founded in France in the 1930. In the later 1940s the UAM
regularly organised exhibitions, called the formes utiles,
which motto was Neue Sachlichkeit . The most
important works of Herbst are the furniture for Begum Aga
Khan that allowed him to realise without any arrangement what
he meant about quality.
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