In other times, Pierre Chapo would have been burned for heresy. Not so long ago when those who admire him professed the death of wood on behalf of "the new man." (...)
Wood invites the hand. To touch. Hot and dull contact. Affinities of the organic. The return to the woods is like a secret plan to reassure oneself. It is the refusal of the synthetic material and the industrious necessities that produce it. To open the door on his uneventful life. The temptation to erase history. Wood refers to an anachronistic time. The time of myth, a time that turns on itself and is sufficient. There is in the return to the wood a kind of tender narcissism. Complacency of the well-to-do ?
Result: 15 600 €
Beckett and the architect
Sweet timelessness of the wood, certainly, but in forms well and good of their time. There is no question of giving in to the facilities of another time: the forms speak for themselves and without frills. You have to call a table,a table and a bed, a bed. (...) The idea of departure is never disguised and this first idea is the function, to sit, to lie down, to eat, to tidy up. Back to the roots (...)
Result: 5 850 €
Pierre Chapo likes to remind, not without coquetry, that his first client was Samuel Beckett. The famous playwright had the first piece of his collection built: a bed, or, to speak more accurately, a bed concept. Just what is needed to put his mattress. Back in the days, Pierre Chapo sold mattresses because he did not practice his real job: the architecture. Samuel Beckett spoke to the architect. Today without even knowing it, Pierre Chapo’s customers also address the architect.
Result: 3 900 €
Reportage, November 1980 by Jean Louis Marrou, Bruno Plaïffli
