The idyllic traversable small storage system, the GUBI Mategot Trolley ticks every box when it comes to style, convenience and storage space. Built to last and featuring two separate tray compartments, a magazine holder and a versatile frame, there's enough room for food and drinks, table lamps and even tea towels to be hung on the trolley's frame.
Designed between 1953 and 1954 by Mathieu Mategot, the trolley boasts an impressively refined aesthetic, with the industrial pipe frame suspending the top perforated tray, of which the surface texture mimics the appearance of carbon fibre.
Mathieu Mategot was born in Hungary in 1910. After his studies at the school of fine arts and architecture in Budapest, he began to create sets for the National Theatre. He settled in France in 1931, where he took up various professions, creating sets for the Folies Bergeres, window dresser for the Lafayette Galleries, fashion designer for dressmaking firms in Paris.
The second world war interrupted his activity. A volunteer in the French army, he was taken prisoner and he was free in 1944. After his return, he set up a workshop for hand crafted furniture in Paris. He used materials such as metal, rattan, glass, Formica, and perforated sheet metal in particular, to design chairs, armchairs, tables, serving tables, sideboards, desks and useful articles.
Mathieu Mategot died in February 2001 at Angers, France.
