Armchair by Aalto
This armchair, and others like it, stem from Aaltos Armchair 41, designed in 1930.
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This chair is made up of two bent steel tubes forming legs, arms and back, fixed to a flat-section steel seat frame. This is filled with a flat seat pad...
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Barcelona chair
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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Basculant by Le Corbusier
The Basculant has a frame of chromium-nickel-plated tubular steel, with calfskin seat and back, and leather strap arm rests. For the interiors of his ow...
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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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Eames Dinning Chairs
Eames regards the seat element as a shell that should be contoured to the human body and the leg structure as a quite distinct base, to which the shell...
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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 Plywood Chair
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Le Corbusier Chaise Lounge
Designed by Le Corbusier in association with his partner, Charlotte Periand, and used in the furnishing of his Villa d'Avray, this is the first chaise t...
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Le Corbusier Grand Confort Chair
An offshoot of the long family tree of overstuffed chairs, the Grand Confort is composed of four large loose cushions fitting within a basket-like frame...
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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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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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Mies van der Rohe BRNO chair
This chair was designed for the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia. Much greater strength is achieved in this design, visually and physically, by t...
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Eames Aluminum Dining Chairs
Eames produced his Aluminium Group: chairs with a single fine seat/back element in horizontally seamed fabric or vinyl coverings over vinyl-coated fabri...
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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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Wishbone Chair by Hans J. Wegner
Hans J. Wegner’s CH24 Wishbone Chair, designed in 1949, combines a curved wooden top rail, Y-shaped back support and woven paper cord seat.
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La Chaise by Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames designed La Chaise for MoMA’s 1948 furniture competition, drawing on Gaston Lachaise’s Floating Figure sculpture.
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CH25 Lounge Chair by Hans J. Wegner
Wegner’s CH25 lounge chair entered production in 1950, pairing a shaped wooden frame with a hand-woven paper cord seat and backrest.
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Shell Chair by Hans J. Wegner
The 1963 CH07 Shell Chair by Hans J. Wegner uses upholstered veneer shells and three laminated legs to create a broad, low lounge seat.
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CH22 Lounge Chair by Hans J. Wegner
The CH22 lounge chair, part of Wegner’s first Carl Hansen & Søn collection, combines a broad wooden back with an exposed frame and cord seat.
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Papa Bear Chair by Hans J. Wegner
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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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CH33 Chair by Hans J. Wegner
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Wing Chair by Hans J. Wegner
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Paimio Armchair by Alvar Aalto
Alvar Aalto’s 1932 Paimio Armchair combines a curled plywood seat with laminated birch side frames, developed for the Paimio sanatorium interior.
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Le Corbusier L'Unite d'habitation, Marseilles
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L'Unite d'habitation, Nantes Reze Pilotis - designed by Le Corbusier.
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Le Corbusier Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp
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Le Corbusier Nantes Reze Reliefs
L'Unite d'habitation in Nantes Reze Reliefs - designed by Le Corbusier.
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Le Corbusier Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
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The Youth and Cultural Center in Firminy, France. Designed by Le Corbusier.
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Barcelona Pavilion
Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich composed the Barcelona Pavilion from glass, polished stone and slender steel columns for the 1929 exposition.
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National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Le Corbusier’s National Museum of Western Art links a concrete gallery building, a sculptural forecourt and an evolving museum collection in Ueno Park.
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Eames House, Pacific Palisades
Charles and Ray Eames combined a steel-framed home and studio with a preserved meadow in their 1949 Case Study House No. 8.
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Edith Farnsworth House, Plano
Mies van der Rohe’s 1951 Edith Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, arranges a transparent living space above the Fox River landscape.
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Villa Tugendhat, Brno
Villa Tugendhat combines a steel frame, a flowing living area and richly finished partitions in Mies van der Rohe’s hillside house in Brno.
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Villa Mairea, Noormarkku
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Danish Modern Design
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