Appoggio chair
Designed for standing with some of the weight off one's legs in spaces too restricted for sitting, the Appoggio is anatomically shaped to correspond to...
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This chair was designed by Mies van der Rohe for the German Government pavilion, which he designed for the Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929.
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Baseball Glove chair
Charles Eames, referring to the designing of his 1957 lounge chair once said he wanted to design a chair that would welcome the body, like a well-used b...
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Bellini Modern Chair
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Dondolo Chair
Not only successful as an abstract sculpture, the Dondolo is also highly functional. It has great strength due to its pleated structure and gives good a...
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Drum Chair
The same principles of construction used in the Torneraj apply to the Drum, showing again that almost any form can now be made to behave as a chair.
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Eames LCM chair
The LCM was technological in its design so it was an exceedingly advanced chair. Eames had been experimenting with formed plywood for a number of years...
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Eames Lounge Chair
The only chair that Eames designed to achieve comfort both actual and psychological, this chair consists of a metal base which supports curved plywood p...
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Eames Plywood Chair
The eventual separation of each plywood element removed the need for the overlapping, but the contours of the 670 can be discerned in this earlier model.
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Landi Chair by Hans Coray
Designed as a stacking park chair for the Swiss National Exhibition in Zurich in 1938, the Landi used the latest developments of the time in aluminium t...
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Lounge chair by Paulin
The shape of this chair is much more functional than a casual inspection would perhaps suggest.
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Marilyn Monroe lips chair
Marilyn is obviously an improved version of Salvador Dali's 'Mae West's Lips' of 1936.
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Mies van der Rohe MR chair
This chair was designed at the time of the earliest use of the cantilever principle for metal-frame chairs.
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Mies van der Rohe Tugendhat chair
This chair was designed, like the Brno for the Tugendhat House.
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Panton Stacking Plastic Modern Chair
This is the first single form plastic chair, and is still one of the most satisfying and sensible. Whether or not there was any direct influence, Panton...
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PastiIIi or Gyro chair by Eero Aarnio
This chair is a two part fiberglass casting which is seamed around the perimeter of the form.
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Poul Kjaerholm - Chair 20
This chair is obviously developed from the Triennale chair: the supporting elements have all been simplified and the tension system is more explicit.
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Rietveld Zig-zag chair
The Zigzag chair is a stark assertion of function - a platform and support for the seated human frame.
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Sling Chair by Clement Meadmore
The design of this chair grew out of an interest in the possibility of using the sling principle in an anatomically correct fashion, and in a way which...
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Rowland Stacking Chair
The final design date for this chair is 1964, but the research and development of the chair itself, including special techniques and materials, began in...
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Soriana chair
The Scarpa's have here produced something close to the ultimate alternative to traditional upholstery. Upholstered chairs used to be made by skilled cra...
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Steltman Chair
A recently discovered Rietveld design of unknown date, this is quite a different concept from his Red-Blue and Berlin chairs with their delineation of l...
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T chair
One of the most significant team efforts in furniture design has been the range of pieces of which this is the key example.
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Tatlin modern chair
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Tripolina chair
This design was patented by Joseph Fenby, an inventor, in 1877. The chair was later manufactured in Italy as the Tripolina and in the United States as t...
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UP 1 modern chair
Gaetano Pesce is an architect, graphic artist and furniture designer. His Up 1 chair solved several problems in a unique and amusing way.
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Wegner modern chair
This is perhaps the best known of Wegner's extensive range of chair designs. It epitomizes the characteristic qualities of his work - classicism, sophis...
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