Whimsical and completely functional, our new Sheep Stools are a wonderful addition to your living room. Available in natural and black. Handcrafted with our California sheepskins.
Dimensions: 44 L x 20 W x 30 H x 20 Seat Height.
Custom made to order. Please allow 10 to 12 weeks.
The History of the Lalanne Sheep | For the 1965 Salon de la Jeune Peinture in Paris, French artist François-Xavier Lalanne wanted to make a statement. “If you come with a snail as big as a thumb, nobody notices,” he said. “You have to go with something immodest and slightly embarrassing.” His idea? Twenty-four sheep.
Lalanne fashioned the faux livestock in the living room of the Paris apartment he shared with Claude, his wife and artistic partner. Four sculptures received impassive faces of patinated bronze while the others remained headless; all were swathed in fluffy sheepskins. Les Lalannes then trotted the surrealistic herd off to the storied Palais de Tokyo exhibition hall, where the moutons—making their grand debut as art furniture, complete with casters in their hooves for easy mobility—were placed prominently at the salon’s entrance.
That fun was as instantaneous as it has been enduring. (And pricey: In 2011 a group of ten sheep fetched nearly $7.5 million at Christie’s.) Several were commissioned by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, who positioned them throughout their Paris library. “[They help me] pretend I am on a farm in Normandy,” the couturier wistfully observed. And when Adelaide de Menil got wind of artist William Copley’s third divorce, in the 1970s, she sent her condolences: a rare black sheep to add to his collection. “I always prefer them in a big mass,” says decorator François Catroux, who recently gathered a trio in a Paris apartment. Architect Peter Marino—whose forthcoming book The Garden of Peter Marino will include a forward by Claude Lalanne—remembers when François-Xavier asked what was his favorite mythological tale: “Without hesitation, I said, ‘The Golden Fleece,’ and he answered, ‘I shall make you an entire flock.’” Cast in bronze, the Moutons de Peter now stand on his Hamptons lawn year-round and graze, just like the ruminants that inspired them. Source ~ Architectural Digest
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Current production
44 L x 20 W x 30 H x 20 Seat Height in
Wood, Sheepskin
New
$425 in the U.S.
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