Guillerme & Chambron Daybed or Bench with Side Table in Oak and Fabric
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Guillerme et Chambron, daybed bench, oak, fabric, France, 1960s.
This low bench or daybed shows the admirable, characteristic details of the French designer duo Guillerme and Chambron. The bench stands on four triangular legs. The seat is made of wooden slats that give a rhythmic look when the cushion is not in use. A handle on the side as well as a frame on one of the short endings decorate the piece. Special feature is the foldable side table that is hidden within this versatile item.
The French designer duo Jacques Chambron (1914-2001) and Robert Guillerme (1913-1990) started their production postwar. Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule and graduated first in his class in 1934. Meanwhile, Jacques Chambron graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Reims. During the Second World War, the two met in a stalag, a Prussian prisoner camp, while being imprisoned by the Germans in East Prussia and started a great friendship based on their intense and deep passion for interior design. In 1948, Chambron resigned from his job as a painter and decorator on the Rue Nollet in Paris to move to Lille, in the North of France and join Guillerme. A year later, the two met cabinetmaker Émile Dariosecq, who was the owner of a workshop close by. It was during this meeting, that they decided to create their own company. They named it “Votre Maison”, meaning “Your Home”, which became the soul of the company.
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From a stalag to a Lille workshop
After the war, Guillerme — a 1934 graduate of the École Boulle — returned to Lille to work as an interior decorator for the respected Ateliers Rogier. Chambron, trained at the École des Arts Appliqués in Reims, resumed his own practice as a painter-decorator from a studio on the rue Nollet in Paris. In 1948 Chambron relocated his family to Lille, and the two reconnected there; they found in Émile Dariosecq, a cabinetmaker looking for new industrial outlets, the craftsman who could turn their ideas into furniture.
In May 1949 the three founded Votre Maison: Guillerme designed the furniture, Chambron managed client relations and interior advice, and the Dariosecq workshops handled production. Over the following fifty-five years — the company operated until 2004 — they produced roughly two thousand distinct models, sold directly through their own points of sale rather than department stores, which kept quality tightly controlled. Hervé Chambron, an École Boulle graduate himself, joined the firm in 1973 and took over its direction around a decade later.
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