Meet
Artifan Anna
In the series Meet the Artifans, Artifort visits design lovers who share a special connection with their Artifort furniture. The series highlights how these designs are not only functional but also carry stories, evoke memories, and connect generations. This time, Artifort visited Anna – for whom her Artifort Oyster lounge chair, lovingly reupholstered, carries a lifetime of memories.
Anna: "In the photograph, I am seated in my Artifort Oyster chair by designer Pierre Paulin. On the side table rests a picture of me as a baby with my father, sitting in the very same chair. My father bought the F157 Oyster lounge chair in the early 1960s with his first salary, and for more than sixty years it has been part of our lives. I grew up in its gentle curves, and when I left my parents’ home, I was overjoyed to take it with me.
"Twelve years ago, after my father passed away, I chose to have this lounge chair reupholstered once more for the third time, returning it to its original petrol blue colour. Today, it is not only the centrepiece of our living room, but a lifelong companion and a quiet tribute to the man who first brought it home."