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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Bellini Modern Chair
Bellini's aim in designing Chair 932 was to create an interchangeable system whereby cushions could be arranged to form a one, two or three seat chair,...
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Cesca Modern Cantilever Chair
Like the MR the Cesca was designed on the cantilever principle which was capturing the imagination of architects and engineers at the time and was subse...
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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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Armchair 19 by Magistretti
Although ostensibly a 'folksy' traditional chair, on close examination this turns out to be one of the few truly modern designs in plain wood constructi...
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Armchair 12 by Kjaerholm
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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Armchair by Aalto
This armchair, and others like it, stem from Aaltos Armchair 41, designed in 1930.
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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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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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Bentwood modern design armchair
In 1840 Michael Thonet invented a process for bending wood which revolutionized the mass production of furniture. He soon established a range of bentwoo...
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George Nelson modern sofa
This sofa is included in a book of chairs, because it is considered to be the only sofa to rank with the chairs selected for this book, as a classic des...
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Piretti Pila Stacking Chairs
What used to be a humble folding wooden chair, has been transformed into a highly complex technological tour de force of gem-like visual simplicity.
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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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Rietveld Berlin chair
In 1923 Rietveld and the De Stijl painter, Huszar, designed a model room for an exhibition in Berlin, Huszar planning the colour and Rietveld the furnit...
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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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Lounge chair by Paulin
The shape of this chair is much more functional than a casual inspection would perhaps suggest.
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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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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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Marilyn Monroe lips chair
Marilyn is obviously an improved version of Salvador Dali's 'Mae West's Lips' of 1936.
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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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Mies van der Rohe Tugendhat chair
This chair was designed, like the Brno for the Tugendhat House.
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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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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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Tomeraj armchair
By a clever arrangement of internal hollows and thickness, the Torneraj manages to become a very good armchair when sat upon and a quarter segment of a...
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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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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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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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Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer
Named after the painter Wassily Kandinsky, for whose home at the Bauhaus it was made, the Wassily has a most complex arrangement of parts, with thin str...
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Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen’s 1958 Egg Chair for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, a sculptural upholstered seat produced by Fritz Hansen.
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Tatlin modern chair
Vladimir Tatlin was a leader of the Russian Constructivist movement, and the Tatlin is the only existing chair from this period.
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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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Tulip Armchair by Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen’s Tulip Armchair for Knoll, introduced in 1957, combines a molded fiberglass shell with a single cast aluminum pedestal.
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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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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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Pedro Freideberg Hand Chair
Probably the first of the new wave of surrealist chairs, this one is sold as the sculpture of Pedro Freideberg, an Italian living in Mexico.
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Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio
Eero Aarnio’s Ball Chair was designed in 1963 and introduced internationally in 1966, using a fiberglass shell to enclose an upholstered seat.
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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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Diamond Chair by Harry Bertoia
Harry Bertoia’s 1952 Diamond Chair for Knoll forms a broad, open seat from welded steel rods, joining sculptural shape with practical support.
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Womb Chair by Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen’s 1948 Womb Chair for Knoll, with an upholstered fiberglass shell shaped for relaxed sitting and a light steel rod base.
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Bubble Chair by Eero Aarnio
Eero Aarnio’s transparent Bubble Chair of 1968 suspends an acrylic shell and padded seat from above, using a metal ring to frame the opening.
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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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Papa Bear Chair by Hans J. Wegner
Wegner’s 1951 Papa Bear Chair, now designated PP19, combines an upholstered wing back with exposed wooden arm tips and traditional padding.
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Ant Chair by Arne Jacobsen
Jacobsen’s 1952 Ant Chair uses a narrow-waisted plywood shell and slender steel legs, joining industrial molding with practical canteen seating.
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Series 7 Chair by Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen’s Series 7 chair of 1955 develops a continuous plywood seat and back, with nine layers of veneer supported by slim steel legs.
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Superleggera Chair by Gio Ponti
Gio Ponti’s 1957 Superleggera chair for Cassina refines a traditional wooden chair through narrow ash members, precise joints and a woven seat.
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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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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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CH33 Chair by Hans J. Wegner
Hans J. Wegner’s CH33 dining chair of 1957 has a curved veneer backrest and tapered wooden frame; the CH33P version adds an upholstered seat.
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Wing Chair by Hans J. Wegner
The CH445 Wing Chair by Hans J. Wegner combines a high upholstered back, a solid beech inner frame and a slender stainless steel base.
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