Celebrating Femininity

Ode to femininity, the design of the BibRond has a direct lineage with iconic and curvaceous creations in the worlds of architecture, decoration, and lifestyle. An aesthete, the container claims its place in an illustrious legacy: an opportunity to offer you a historical stroll through the rich universe of inspired achievements…

An eloquent ancestor, the breast bowl

Also known as the nipple bowl, this centerpiece of a table service designed to enhance the dairy at the Château de Rambouillet, built for Queen Marie Antoinette, was quite the subject of speculation in its time. Rumor had it back then that the biscuit porcelain piece had been cast from a mold of the sovereign's breast. Just another argument used to criticize her frivolity. The legend, now confirmed as pure fiction, nevertheless adds to the magic of this iconic piece, which tells the story of the powers of a naturally nurturing body.

A few centuries later, in 1969, Gaetano Pesce would embrace feminine forms to denounce a different issue. The designer paid a powerful tribute to a body both welcoming and abused. If the Big Mamma armchair, with its voluptuous curves and inviting shapes, encourages the user to surrender as a child snuggled against their mother would, the ball-and-chain pouf at its foot irreversibly condemns the condition of women and the sexism that hindered the freedom of his contemporaries.

Opulent curves in Italian design

Also a product of Italian design of the 1960s, certainly less committed but just as iconic, the Nesso lamp by Giancarlo Mattioli features a voluptuous lampshade said to have been designed after a woman's navel. The lamp, a star of the plastic age, was thus named Nesso, meaning “cord” or “link” in Italian, shedding light on the sacred vocation of the female body.

Dreamlike and fantasized curves

Rio lounge chair, Oscar Niemeyer, 1978.

In architecture, curves are deployed in XXL versions to create sensual living spaces. Surprising dens, intended to be as welcoming as the original body: one naturally thinks of the Palais Bulles, the dreamlike 12,900 sq ft villa that could house the adventures of a Mediterranean Barbamama, and which was acquired by Pierre Cardin. The famous couturier would say about it, “It is a woman's body.” We also mention the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, nicknamed the genius of the curve, and his organic designs that evoke the rounded forms of the female bodies he admired as a child on the beaches of Copacabana. A “miniature” version of these sensual dreams, the Rio lounge chair designed in 1978 by the architect in collaboration with his daughter explores the delicate elegance of fantasized bodies to harmoniously fit into the unique homes of the creator.