No one ever purchased an Andr\u00e9 Dubreuil chair for its comfort or practicality. His creations, although constructed from metals, are delicate, elegantly proportioned, exquisitely balanced and unashamedly ornamental. \u2018My furniture will never be defined by its function,\u2019\u00a0Dubreuil once said. \u2018The eye needs to be attracted, hooked and focused on...
‘Paris’ chair by André Dubreuil. This and other pieces by the designer were part of a group show titled ‘Accidents Will Happen: Creative Salvage, 1981-1991’ at Friedman Benda in early 2022.No one ever purchased an André Dubreuil chair for its comfort or practicality. His creations, although constructed from metals, are delicate, elegantly proportioned, exquisitely balanced and unashamedly ornamental. ‘My furniture will never be defined by its function,’ Dubreuil once said.
The son of a Lyon pharmaceutical and medical research family, Dubreuil moved from France to London as teenager to study drawing and draughtsmanship at the Inchbald School of Design in Belgravia. He worked as a trompe l’oeil painter and decorator/retailer at Christophe Gollut’s Alistair Colvin store in Chelsea.
A request to help create the interior of Rococo, a Kings Road chocolatier that opened in 1983, changed his life. With the young, employed to weld furniture and Arabesque light fittings for the tiny boutique, running late on the day, Dubreuil took over. ‘I helped him [Dixon] to make his chandelier and I was suddenly hooked with the soldering iron,’ he recalled. ‘That was that. I was welding in my flat – my poor neighbour – all night.
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