TOLIX®’s products are entirely MADE IN FRANCE and have remained true to the company’s Burgundian values and origins. All TOLIX®’s products are designed, formed, stamped, welded and hand-assembled at the factory in Autun...
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Since 1927, Tolix® creates iconic furniture pieces that combine creativity, design and functionality. Proud of our heritage and contribution to world design with its international-renowned models such as the A Chair, Tolix® has kept for over 95 years the French way of living also known as “L’art de vivre à la française”.
Since 1927, Tolix® creates iconic furniture pieces that combine creativity, design and functionality. Proud of our heritage and contribution to world design with its international-renowned models such as the A Chair, Tolix® has kept for over 95 years the French way of living also known as “L’art de vivre à la française”.
TOLIX®’s products are entirely MADE IN FRANCE and have remained true to the company’s Burgundian values and origins. All TOLIX®’s products are designed, formed, stamped, welded and hand-assembled at the factory in Autun (the only historical production site).
Despite ongoing modernisation, more than 80% of the product's manufacturing processes involve manual steps. French know-how that TOLIX®is proud to have maintained.
Each product that leaves the workshop is unique and has the Tolix signature stamped into the metal. In 2006, Tolix®received with honour the "Living Heritage Company" label, a mark of recognition. It is awarded by the French state for French companies that has an artisanal or industrial know-how of excellence.
Sustainable development is a constant concern at TOLIX® therefore the subcontractors and suppliers of raw materials selected for Tolix®’s manufacture are mostly located within a radius of less than 400km.
By using steel and stainless steel, recycled and recyclable materials, Tolix® offers lasting collections, resistant to wear and tear over time, as well as to use under extreme weather conditions,while taking care with a regular maintenance by the customer to their beautiful furniture.The oak and Iroko woods used by Tolix® are PEFC* certified. This is a commitment to sustainable consumption, shared with consumers, encouraging them to "consume less, but better ".
* The PEFC label guarantees the consumer that the product he buys comes from responsible sources and that through his purchase, he participates in the sustainable management of forests.
Since the twentieth century, Tolix®has called on a new generation of designers who have brought new energy into the brand: Normal Studio, Patrick Norguet, Pauline Deltour,... The new Tolix®collections are the contemporary expression of industrial design.
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The Tolix chair was designed in France more than 80 years ago by Xavier Pauchard, a young man born in Le Morvan, a region, curiously enough, known for its timber production. His family, however, was involved in the processing of the chemical element zinc.
At the age of 27, after months and months of experimentation, Xavier Pauchard succeeded in protecting metals from oxidation thanks to the galvanizing process, which consists of coating steel and iron with a layer of zinc that protects them from atmospheric corrosion. This led him to the manufacture of outdoor metal furniture, founding his own company: Tolix.
In 1934, the designer launched the Tolix chair, also known as chair A. It was a great success, especially among restaurants and cafés in Paris, which appreciated the lightness, strength and functionality of this type of furniture for the hospitality industry. It also contributed to its popularity because it was designed specifically for outdoor use and had three holes in the seat to allow water to drain away.
The chair underwent several modifications over the years, as Parisian restaurateurs initially complained that the design did not allow them to stack them properly. Pauchard had to rethink the product, making its structure thinner so that up to 25 chairs could be stacked.
The success of the new design, launched in 1956, spread beyond Parisian cafés to offices, factories and hospitals around the world, remaining to this day one of the best-selling chair models of all time. As an icon, it has even found its way into museums such as the MoMA in New York and the Pompidou in Paris.
The Tolix factory remained in the Pauchard family until 2004, when it was acquired by Chantal Androit, who enlisted the help of creatives Jean-François Dingjian and Eloi Chafaï of Normal Studio to revitalize the company’s designs. This resulted in a new line of Tolix products, including tables, benches, and low and high stools.
However, there are those who dispute Pauchard’s title as the inventor of this type of seating: the prestigious Vitra Design Museum in Germany claims that the Tolix chair is a variation of an earlier design by another Frenchman, Joseph Mathieu. Specifically, the stackable metal Multipl’s chair, created in the early 1920s.
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