Brand
Tolix
Founded in Autun, Burgundy in 1908 by Xavier Pauchard as a manufacturer of galvanized sheetmetal household items, the brand's iconic A Chair has remained the standard in café seating worldwide for decades. Tolix furniture has become a timeless benchmark in the world of design and is handmade with authenticity by passionate craftsmen. Chic and popular at the same time, Tolix achieves an alchemy between beauty and utility, sheetmetal and colors, interior and exterior,...
Designer
Xavier Pauchard
Born in Burgundy, France in 1880, Xavier Pauchard is the son and grandson of zinc roofers. He founded a factory producing household items that integrated a major innovation: the use of hot-dip galvanizing. This technique protects iron items from oxidation by dipping them in a bath of molten zinc.
Passionate about metal, he took years to perfect his mastery of iron and steel, until he could make it into any shape he desired. A visionary, he designed pieces of standard furniture to b...