mid century design
The Cone Chair and Heart Cone chair by Verner Panton
When the Cone Chair was first exhibited in the window of a furniture shop i...
Spanish Chair 2226 by Børge Mogensen
Mogensen's name rarely crops up outside the world of collectors, designers ...
Panton Chair, Verner Panton, Vitra
Verner Panton’s smooth tongue-shaped chair, a development on from his plywo...
Corona Chair EJ5 Poul Volther
Poul Volther's design for the Corona Chair is said to be so inspired by the...
Ball Chair by Eerio Aarnio
Eeerio Aarnio’s Ball Chair came into being with the same intensity as the U...
The Universale Chair by Joe Columbo
If you were asked to name one designer who sums up the pioneering spirit of...
Seagull Chairs by Arne Jacobson
With the Seagull Chair, Arne Jacobsen conjured up a chair that inspire pass...
The Garden Egg Chair by Peter Ghyczy
The Garden Egg Chair by Ghyczy is often highlighted as a typical example of...
Birillo Bar Stool, Joe Colombo
Around the time the first man landed on the moon, Joe Colombo was on his ow...
OMKSTAK Stacking Chair
OMKSTAK Stacking Chair. The classic chair with a design based on a military...
THE WASSILY CHAIR (B3) by Marcel Breuer
The Model B3 (Wassily Chair) was one of the earliest products to emerge fro...
The Paimio Sanatorium Chair
Whichever Paimio chair you prefer, you cannot help but marvel at Aalto’s sc...
Herman Miller its history and timeline
Herman Miller, its timeline, Key products and its history.
Joe Colombo and the glove like Elda armchair
Designed to engulf a person, transporting them away to another planet, the ...
Erik Buch Bar Stool
The Erik Buch Bar Stool. The Bar Stool that launched a thousand cocktails.
Mid-century American Furniture Design
Mid-century American Furniture Design and key post-war designers
GJ Chair by Grete Jalk and Poul Jeppesen
With the GJ Chair, Grete Jalk took the early plywood experiments of the Eam...
The Djinn chair and Kubrick’s 2001: a Space Odyssey
Twenty-four year old Olivier Mourgue's organic chairs, inspired by Islamic ...
Charles Pollock Executive Chair, by Knoll
The Pollock Executive Chair, is still available and still meets the same ex...
The Tulip Chair by Eero Saarinen
Highly competitive, Eames (for Herman Miller) and Saarinen (for Knoll), lov...
Arne Jacobsen and the ‘Egg Chair’
Jacobsen perfected the sculpting of the Egg and Swan in his garage, working...
Herman Miller’s Time Life Lobby Chair and a game of chess
In the midst of the Cold War, American Bobby Fischer is lined up to play Ru...
Nordic Design comes of age
Nordic design was without doubt the epitome of post-war good taste. Find ou...
The rise of American Design
The concept of a mid-century design movement was readily embraced in the Un...
The Synthesis 45 Typist Chair
Like the much-coveted lipstick red typewriter launched with Olivetti on Val...
The Wiggle Side Chair by Frank Gehry
Lovingly carved from a redundant pile of corrugated cardboard he used for b...
Falcon Chair by Sigurd Resell & Vatne Lenestolfabrikk
When designer Sigurd Resell's Falcon Chair first rolled off the production ...
UP5 Donna by Gaetano Pesce
Dressed in bold colours or a Bridget Riley stripe, Pesce's Donna celebrated...
Eames Soft Pad Chair 217
A masterful piece of engineering, the 1958 cast aluminium 217 has a seat fr...
Mogen Koch’s Safari Chair
Mogens S. Koch, the son of the Danish designer of the same name, remembers ...