Bucky

In 1995, the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris commissioned the Australian designer Marc Newson an installation. Inspired by a recent scientific discovery, Buckminster’s fullerene, a spherical C60 carbon molecule, he creates sixty modules, the Bucky. In different colours, they were assembles to form a freestanding structure but they could also be used as individual seats. In addition to one of the original prototypes, signed and numbered 4/60, the museum also preserves one of the industrial versions made of polyethylene, the Bucky II¸ produced since 1997 by the German company Löffler.