Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge is a chair that revisits – with irony, half a century on – the Belle Époque, with its café-chantants and cabarets; it is an era which exerts an influence in this third millennium over a great many current frou-frou designs for the interiors of the jet set, with their paillettes, copious edges, various plumages, and gilded, shining pendants. Faux gold, lamé and papier mâché backdrops all make a reappearance, providing the stage for a comedy of falsehoods that embodies faked happiness, artificial elegance and ostentatious wellbeing, overpowering and concealing, with its yelling, the reality of a decadent world. The chair itself becomes a soubrette, ready to enter the stage of the cabaret of life and, forgetting reality, to perform a fiction, with her ostrich-feather fan lying on her bottom (serving as the seatback) and her legs coquettishly crossed on provocative stilettoes.