Green Gin Trolley

Green Gin Trolley

Original green serving table or cocktail trolley in perforated sheet metal or rigitule by Mathieu Matégot by Ateliers Mathieu Mategot, France.
Gin 1953.

Documented and referenced in

Mathieu Matégot by Jousse Enterprise.
Patrick Favardin, Mathieu Matégot, Norma Editions, 2014
Original paint.

The drinks trolley seems to have been one of Mate got’s favorites. They symbolize a time of peace and leisure, whilst ‘theoretically’ lightening the load of household work. They also represent a blurring between the indoors and the outside, at a time when the everyday living space was being extended to balconies and gardens. He was to produce over 20 drinks trolley permutations.

The Conflict had left behind mountains of abandoned military hardware, now abundant scrap, and so Mate got turned his eyes and imagination upon metal, a material he had come to know whilst a prisoner of war – when assigned to a factory in Germany he had utilized offcuts of perforated sheet metal to make a toy car. Post-war he immediately set out to target everyday objects that seemed stylistically left behind or outmoded, such as the aforementioned tea or drinks trolley.

And so, he began to use perforated steel that he lacquered in black and poetically named “Rigitulle”. To help with the manufacture he invented a machine capable of pleating and folding steel which gave his creativity an incredible freedom.

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