Mid-Century White Ceramic Ashtray by Roger Capron and Mathieu Mategot for Atelier Matégot, 1950s

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This ashtray was manufactured in France in the 1950s. It is signed on the bottom.

Mathieu Mategot (1910-2001) was a … more This ashtray was manufactured in France in the 1950s. It is signed on the bottom.

Mathieu Mategot (1910-2001) was a Hungarian and French designer and material artist. He was one of the most renowned French designers of the 1950s. Born and educated in Budapest, he moved to France in the early 1930s, where he worked as a window dresser and women’s clothing designer. He learned metalworking techniques as a prisoner of war in the 1940s and upon his release began designing furniture, pioneering many of what we now identify as Midcentury design tropes, like metal-mounted rattan, steel tubing, and perforated sheet metal. By the 1970s, Mategot returned to producing tapestries. less