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La Chaise
Designers: Charles y Ray Eames
Piece designed for the “International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design”, held at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 1948.
The organic form of La Chaise was inspired by “The Floating Figure,” the famous sculpture that the sculptor Gaston Lachaise, Franco-American artist, created in 1927.
Photographer: Hans Hansen |
Cité
Designer: Jean Prouvé
The armchair Cité is one of Prouvé's early furniture designs. The aesthetic quality of this dynamic looking chair, with distinctive runners made of painted sheet steel, has lost none of its freshness and inviting comfort over the years. Cité fits well in the domestic setting (where Prouvé himself used it) but can also be used in waiting areas. |
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Antony
Designer: Jean Prouvé
Many connoisseurs regard Antony as Prouvé's finest design. This chair stands out by virtue of its unconventional construction producing a sturdy yet dynamically curvaceous form. Antony is especially suited for the private sphere, but also finds an appropriate place in waiting areas. |
Standard
Designer: Jean Prouvé
This chair is one of the classics in the history of furniture. Its quality is revealed in structural logic and unassuming aesthetics. Robust and functionally versatile, Standard works equally well in domestic settings or as public seating in cafés and restaurants. |
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Bertoia Side Chair
Designer: Harry Bertoia
Innovative & comfortable, the chair's delicate filigree appearance belies its strength and durability.
In 1952, sculptor Harry Bertoia bent metal rods into art and made a chair that consists mainly of air and is now revered as a timeless enhancement to any environment. |
How High the Moon
Designer: Shiro Kuramata
The innovative use of steel mesh is one of the most important aspects of Kuramata’s contemporary designs. This model was completed in 1986.
Photographer: Hans Hansen |
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Serie Easy Edges
Wiggle Chair (1972) y Little Beaver (1980)
Designer: Frank O. Gehry
The series “Easy Edges”, limited edition whose origins were first designs of corrugated cardboard, would appear to be a low-cost alternative for mass production, however, these chairs are part of a limited edition. There are only 100 of the Little Beaver in the world. |
MVS Chaise
Designer: Maarten Van Severen
MVS Chaise can work in offices, studios or housing and always helps boost energy with a bit of rest.
Photographer: Hans Hansen |
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WW. Stool
Designer: Philippe Starck
Starck designed this chair in 1990 in response to an ingenious set-design for the cinema director Win Wenders. This piece shows the influence of “Soft Design” that characterized his work in the 1990s.
Photographer: Hans Hansen |
Barcelona Collection
Designer: Mies van der Rohe
Created by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for his 1929 Barcelona Pavilion, the Barcelona Collection features the pure compositional structure that now epitomizes modern architecture. |
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Panton
Designer: Verner Panton
Verner Panton worked for many years on the idea of creating a chair out of one piece of plastic. What Panton created was the first chair molded by injection of this type of material characterized by not having rear legs. This historic icon of design begun to be produced in mass in 1967 and can be purchased in various different colors.
Photographer: Hans Hansen |
The Egg / The Swan
Designer: Arne Jacobsen
Its design was developed in 1958 for the lobby of the elegant Royal Hotel in Denmark. |
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Serie 7
Designer: Arne Jacobsen
The Arne Jacobsen Series Seven from 1955 is a range of laminated chairs with 9 layers of moulded veneer and 2 layers of cotton textile between the veneer layers. The legs are made of mirror chromed or satin chromed steel tubing.
Series 7 is available in a wide range of lacquer or lazur colours as well as in natural veneers: maple, beech, ash, cherry and nut. The series includes chairs with arms, swivel chairs on castors and a pedestal chair plus a string of accessories.
Series 7 is also available with front or full upholstery in fabric or leather. |
Ant
Designer: Arne Jacobsen
The slim waist and the shell with back and seat made out of one piece are the special characteristics of the Ant chair which was designed in 1952 by Arne Jacobsen.
The material is laminated wood with 9 layers of moulded veneer and 2 layers of cotton textile between the veneer layers. The legs are steel tubing.
Model 3100 has three legs in mirror chromed steel. Model 3101 has four legs in mirror or satin chromed steel.
The Ant chair is available in a wide range of colours plus in maple and beech wood. |
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Bad Tempered Chair
Designer: Ron Arad
Its predecessor, the Well Tempered Chair, made design history. The strange formal idiom, the completely novel use of materials, the simple structure and the truly unconventional sitting feeling swiftly made the iconic design of 1985 known the world over.
Ron Arad first presented his new Bad Tempered Chair at the Milan International Furniture Fair in 2002. It is made of a specially developed plastic, enabling it to withstand rough use and remain highly flexible.
Photographer: Hans Hansen |
Heart Cone Chair
Designer: Verner Panton
The Heart Cone Chair takes its name from its heart-shaped silhouette. Designed in 1959, this seat blends the elegance of the 1950s with the charm of 1960s design. Yet, for all its extravagance, the Heart Cone Chair is a comfortable club chair for everyday use.
Photographer: Hans Hansen |
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Cone Chair
Designer: Verner Panton
Designed for a Danish restaurant, this chair is based on the classic geometric figure of the cone. Standing on a stainless steel base, the chair boasts a swivel function. The tall semicircular shell forms the chair's back and arm supports. Together with its upholstered cushion, the glass-fibre reinforced plastic shell with its thin layer of upholstery represents an exceedingly comfortable, inviting form of seat in which users can sit at desks or in meetings for long periods at a time.
Photographer: Hans Hansen |
Viper
Designer: Hans S. Jakobsen
Viper is a simple and very flexible screen wall series ideal for the daring company and the progressive private home.
Viper consists of simple, vertical oval cardboard or aluminium tubes linked with an elegant hinge. With no tools in hand a simple manual clicking-on is all it takes to link this logical design into an endless screen wall.
The cardboard paper is surface treated with an invisible moisture and dirt resistant material, and thus easy to clean.
The aluminium tubes are natural anodized with closed or perforated tubes with an inner sound absorbing foam filling.
Viper was designed in 1996 by Danish Hans Sandgren Jakobsen. |
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