Roger Fatus
Collection 1967 — 2025
Revisiting an Icon of French Design
January 15 - Februaary 23, 2025

For more than twenty years, the Demisch Danant gallery has been promoting the generation of post-war French designers internationally: Pierre Paulin, Joseph-André Motte, Pierre Guariche,
Olivier Mourgue, Etienne Fermigier, Michel Boyer, André Monpoix, Antoine Philippon and Jacqueline Lecoq, Roger Fatus.

All collaborated with the Mobilier National from the creation of the Atelier de Recherche et de Création (ARC) in 1964, producing some of the most innovative and emblematic furniture of the period known as the Trente Glorieuses (1945–1975).

In 2023, on the occasion of our collaboration on the exhibition of the furniture designed in 1988 by Pierre Paulin for President François Mitterrand’s office at the Élysée Palace, our discussions with the Mobilier National rekindled a long-standing project: to produce limited editions of major creations by the ARC from the 1960s–1970s, most of which had remained at the prototype stage.

Our choice quickly became clear: the conference table created by Roger Fatus in 1967. Modern, timeless, ingeniously modular, this table remains strikingly relevant nearly sixty years after its creation.

In collaboration with the Mobilier National and the Brimbois company, responsible for fabricating the pieces, we took on the challenge of producing in France a first series faithful to the original prototypes.

Two years later, five models have come to life, all validated by the ARC team as well as by designer Roger Fatus, who have supported us from the start of this project:

– Conference table in wenge blockboard (3 elements)
– Desk in wenge veneer (2 elements)
– Coffee table in midnight-blue laminate (4 elements)
– Daybed in sycamore (5 elements)
– Daybed in midnight-blue laminate (5 elements)

These pieces bear witness to French excellence and to the timeless relevance of 1960s design.

Following the launch of the Collection at the Mobilier National on September 30, 2025, our exhibition in New York in January and February 2026 is also a tribute to designer Roger Fatus, who would have turned 100 in February.