The collection came out in 1969, and was marketed as the peak in space age comfort, a way for the hip buyer to reconcile their love of the traditional with their hankering for the trendy. who was the director of design at the Herman Miller furniture company. The next step was the creation of the “Quasar” dome-like blow up habitat, and of an 11-piece, PVC-based furniture line he named “Aerospace”. Atomic Age design is a highly imaginative movement that plays on these themes of. It had a sliding glass ceiling and doors, and seats made of what would become his signature blow-up furniture. In 1967-68, he came out with the Quasar-Unipower box car, which was basically meant to look like a sassier version of the Pope Mobile (but kind of ended up looking like a fish tank). That’s how he met his painfully cool other half, the late designer Emmanuelle: Quasar and Emmanuelle
The French-Vietnamese designer helped ignite the blow up movement in the 1960s, and actually studied Engineering at a prestigious school in Paris before transitioning into design. The man above, so expertly chillaxing in his dingy-chair, is Quasar Khahn. You could entertain a whole, groovy crowd in the inflatable zen pad, or sit in solitude and squeak yourself to sleep… You could spill on the chairs, or you could take them out to sea. Vintage Space Age furniture captured postWorld War II optimism with swooping shapes, bowed lines and experimentation with new materials including plastic and fiberglass. As we dream of sipping an ice cold margarita on a floaty pool mattress, far from the stuffiness of our cubicles, a certain nostalgia comes to mind: the age of 1960s, blow up “living.” Through furniture, rooms, even a car, the inflatable life brought a welcome touch of relaxation and sheer goofiness to a design world that often takes itself too seriously.
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