# Olivier Mourgue artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:54:27.327Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Furniture and seating design

## About Olivier Mourgue

Olivier Mourgue, born in 1939, is a French industrial designer whose available public records center on furniture and seating. He is best known for the futuristic Djinn chairs associated with the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Photographic documentation in the collected source pack also identifies Djinn sofas and a chaise longue, showing that the name applies to a broader seating family rather than a single chair form. Authority and museum identifiers from Wikidata, Getty ULAN, MoMA, and national-library networks help distinguish Mourgue from similarly named people and connect catalogued objects with the correct designer. Collectors most often encounter his name in twentieth-century design contexts, especially in connection with Djinn seating from the 1960s. Because the available institutional excerpts are brief, this profile does not assign Mourgue to a formal artistic movement or extend beyond the career details established by the collected records.

## Common works and media

The collected records most clearly document furniture and seating, especially the Djinn family. Objects encountered in auction or appraisal contexts may be described as Djinn chairs, sofas, or chaise longues. Listings should be matched to the precise seating format and documented design rather than grouped solely under Mourgue's name. The source pack does not establish that other object types occur frequently enough to characterize them as common market categories.

## Market and appraisal context

Market review should begin by determining whether an object is a chair, sofa, or chaise longue and whether its identification as a Djinn design is documented. Titles and dates attached to the supplied Wikimedia records illustrate why the exact seating format and design date matter when matching an object with public examples. Appraisily auction records can then support comparison by lot type, sale date, and realized price when sufficiently similar records are available. This source pack does not include accessible auction-house catalogue notes, condition reports, manufacturer documentation, or verified individual results, so it cannot support a price forecast. Attribution, condition, provenance, completeness, and restoration history should remain unresolved until documented for the particular object under appraisal.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3351241
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500337065
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/4131
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Mourgue
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Mourgue
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Canap%C3%A9_Djinn_(Olivier_Mourgue).JPG
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Olivier_Mourgue_Chaise_longue_Djinn_Mus%C3%A9e_des_arts_d%C3%A9coratifs_Paris.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/olivier-mourgue/