In 1954, Jean Prouvé won the commission to furnish 150 rooms at the Cité Universitaire in Antony, outside Paris - one of the largest student residence buildings in Europe. The chair he designed for those rooms was his last major furniture work. Vitra has been producing it since acquiring Prouvé’s archive, but this 2025 edition is distinct from every previous reissue in one specific way: the seat shell is European pine rather than birch plywood, finished in wax rather than lacquer, so it will deepen in tone with light exposure over time.
The frame is powder-coated in Rouge Corsaire - the exact colour specified in Prouvé’s original production drawings, recovered from the Vitra Design Museum archive, which holds over 7,000 designs and received the Antony chair as its first acquisition. Each chair carries a consecutively numbered plaque.
The Antony was the first chair to enter the Vitra Design Museum collection. This edition is the reason to own one.
£2,500 - vitra.com