The Animals of Les Lalannes

Well, some of them……mostly made in the sixties of the previous century

1973, Baboon fireplace, François-Xavier’s Lalanne, Paul Kasmin Gallery

Le grand chat polymorphe (1968)

Rhinocrétaire desk

Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne

hippopotamus bath, commissioned by Teeny and Marcel Duchamp in 1968

Toad chair (1969)

Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne in Tourterelle, 1997

1974

Les Lalannes are Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne, a French ‘designers couple’. Google them if you want to know more about these extraordinary minds…..

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