Vitra Tabouret Métallique stool, Prouvé Bleu Marcoule

Vitra’s Tabouret Métallique was originally designed by Jean Prouvé in 1936 and reissued by Vitra in 2022. Tabouret Métallique, which is French for “metallic stool”, consists of a round seat and a fascinating angular leg structure, which Prouvé later also used in his Trapèze table. The Tabouret Métallique stool also works perfectly as a small side table, for example, next to a lounge chair, and it has plastic gliders on the bottom to protect the floor from scratches.

The vivid blue shade of the stool belongs to Jean Prouvé’s original color chart, which he developed himself. The name of the color, Bleu Marcoule, comes from a power plant in Marcoule, France, for which Prouvé designed blue-hued furniture in the 1950s.