Boris Tabacoff
(1927–1985)

Boris Tabacoff, born in 1927, was a French designer of Bulgarian origin who made a mark in the 1970s with a bold and forward-looking style. Trained as an architect, he quickly turned to furniture design, a field in which he fully expressed his sensitivity for organic shapes and contemporary materials.

Tabacoff created pieces that defied the classic codes of furniture : suspended armchairs, curved metal structures, and transparent surfaces in glass or plexiglass. Above all, he sought to free objects from their usual constraints by crafting forms that seem to float, at the boundary between art and functionality.

His furniture reflects an interest in lightness, movement, and visual balance. Through these creations, Tabacoff explored an aesthetic close to spatial utopia, blending the sensuality of curves with the technological coldness of chrome metal.

Discreet yet influential, Boris Tabacoff remains today a cult figure of avant-garde French design. His works, rare on the market, testify to an era when furniture was imagined as an extension of the future.