Exhibition at the " Puces du design" in Paris , to 10 -13 May 2012 L'exposition "Quasar Khanh , pionnier du mobilier gonflable" à été rendu possible grâce au concours des personnes et sociétés suivantes: -Fabien Bonillo , organisateur des "puces du design" , événement majeur dans le monde du design et de l'antiquité du 20 ieme siècle. -Anne Sophie Lechevallier , attachée de presse exclusive sur l'événement  -Marc Mineray , SCENOGRAPHE et directeur artistique du projet ...www.galerie47.com -Mick Jayet , pour ses photographies des meubles  -Frederic Keller , restaurateur des structures gonflable de Quasar Khanh ...www.jckelller.com -NeO ToNY Lee , artiste , grand fan de Quasar Khanh , pour ses photographies du "cube" de Quasar ...www.neotonylee.com -Patrick Serpagli et Éric , Atelier Mustang   -Laurent Zeit et son camion magique , un ami très gonflé  Et dans le désordre A Kifaitou , PZeitoun , DR , JM , LR , BP , et les autres ... On the occasion of the 26° Puces du Design,Paris , from May 10 to 13 2012 an exhibition dedicated to Quasar Khanh,pioneer of inflatable furniture and the "Aerospace" collection. On this occasion will be presented the collection 'Aerospace', the first line of inflatable furniture ever designed with rares pièces and the "Quasar Unipower" concept car designed in 1967. Quasar, whose real name is Nguyen Manh Khanh, was born in Hanoï , Vietnam. He arrived in Paris with his family in 1949 and studied engineering at the prestigious Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. In 1957, he married a young fashion designer; both will mark their time and form a creative and avant-garde couple.In 1967, he developed the very first line of inflatable furniture, the collection "Aerospace" which will instantly become a standard of design. In 1968 he created the car 'Quasar Unipower' foreshadowing of a purely urban vehicle, rolling glass cube, designed for mass production. It will ultimately be produced in only six copies but it will have left its mark on the seventies with its innovative and futuristic aspects.His 'Chesterfield' sofas, 'Apollo' chairs, 'Relax' lounge chair and other inflatable lamps ... were manufactured between 1968 and 1972 in the suburbs of Paris, in a beach toy factory. They were made entirely by hand like pieces of haute couture, and for some, the assemblies were made with metal rings.This institutional recognition continues up to now: pieces of the collection 'Aerospace' appear in the collections of the greatest museums in the world - Centre Georges Pompidou , Paris , Vitra Design Museum, plasticarium , Bruxelles , Musée des arts décoratifs , Paris.

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1. why aren't these designs available today??