Flowers series
Disderot – Olivier Mourgue, 1967 

Olivier Mourgue was born in 1939 in Paris. After studying at the Boulle school, following the advice of one a teacher, he presented  a seat at the Airborne Company, which published hit under the name of "Joker" in 1959. The Whist, Montreal, Cubique models followed.

In the 60s and 70s and until the end of the 80s, he made works and projects for manufacturers, architects, theater and cinema: Airborne, Disderot, Mobilier National, Renault, Bayer, Prisunic, director Stanley Kubrick and architects Lord Norman Foster, London and Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki.

In 1967, he developed the Flowers series for Pierre Disderot. In 1968, his “Djinn” seat was chosen by Stanley Kubrick for the furniture of the future in his film “2001, A Space Odyssey”. The seat won the First International Design Award by the Institute of Interiors Designers in New York and is included in the collections of MoMA in New York and in the permanent collection of the Center Georges Pompidou.

In 1968, he designed a character seat for Airborne, "Bouloum", which have been exposed in several versions with the Mobilier National at the Osaka Universal Exhibition.

Invited by Bayer Leverkusen for Visiona 3, after Verner Panton's Visiona 2, he designs a modular living space of 115 m2 and a collection of rugs and textiles.

Olivier Mourgue will then become a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Brest