Design
CH24 Wishbone Chair
Read the CH24 Wishbone Chair through its dates, curved frame, Y-shaped support, joinery and paper-cord seat—then separate model history from vintage-object evidence.
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Furniture Library
Discover the objects, people and ideas that shaped furniture, from historic pieces to modern designs.
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Person
Jean Prouvé
Meet Jean Prouvé through three scales of work: the unequal legs of the Standard Chair, a wall-mounted lamp and a demountable house.
Historic object
Mechanical Table 33.12
Open Riesener’s 1778 table for Marie Antoinette: a crank raises its marquetry top while panels become a lectern, mirror and six compartments.
Technique
Marquetry
See how marquetry turns thin veneers and other fitted materials into an image, why grain changes the drawing and how one cut can produce two reversed patterns.
Design
Plia folding chair
The story of Giancarlo Piretti’s Plia folding chair, its concentrated three-disc joint, the 1967 museum record and why a spare chair can deserve a place in the room.
Style
Danish Modern
Understand Danish Modern as a historical era, design method and international label—not a shortcut for pale wood, minimalism or automatic authenticity.
Follow a thread
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Danish furniture
Explore the people, objects and craft traditions in our Danish furniture collection.
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Material & making
Follow the work of hands, tools and materials, from woven seats to inlaid surfaces.
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Furniture in motion
Folding frames and moving parts: objects designed to change shape, travel or make room.
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Design
Bocca sofa
Follow Bocca from a Milan waiting room to a recognisable sofa, through Studio65’s visual joke, Gufram’s foam and a change of scale.
Person
Carlo Mollino
See how Carlo Mollino’s Arabesco table connects a flowing drawing to layered wood, workshop skill and glass that helps control the shape.
Design
Chandigarh furniture
Explore Chandigarh furniture through fitted rooms, workshop drawings and a dressing table signed by Eulie Chowdhury, beyond the detached chair.
Historic object
Child’s high chair, 64.101.899
Look at the Met’s seventeenth-century walnut high chair through its proportions, turned rails and the different domestic scene in Maes’s The Lacemaker.