Design
Layers Cloud Chair
Richard Hutten’s Layers Cloud Chair builds its body from cut textile layers. The Divina project lets colour and material form the furniture instead of merely covering it.
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Design
Le Klint Model 307 Table Lamp
Discover Esben Klint’s 1948 Model 307, where a slender brass stand lets a hand-folded Model 2 shade create volume, stiffness and softened light.
Design
Lectori Salutem desk
Jeroen Verhoeven’s Lectori Salutem desk combines flowing metal surfaces with contours of his creative partners and a visibly constructed open end.
Historic object
Leleu Cylinder-top Desk BK-14854
See how one pull transforms Jean François Leleu's c. 1775–85 cylinder-top desk from a restrained mahogany case into a fitted place for writing.
Design
Les Arcs fitted interiors
Explore Les Arcs through long apartments, fitted furniture, prefabricated service units and the wooden strip that gathered several jobs beside a bed.
Historic object
Lightshade-shade chandelier, Centraal Museum28654
Jurgen Bey’s Light Shade Shade places a chandelier inside reflective foil. Centraal Museum 28654 shows how light can reveal an object that its shade first conceals.
Person
Lilly Reich
Inside Lilly Reich and Mies van der Rohe’s Velvet and Silk Café, cloth displays itself while shaping a room. A woven chair brings that material thinking to the body.
Person
Lina Bo Bardi
Explore Lina Bo Bardi through three kinds of seating: a folding auditorium chair, the movable Bowl and the firm wooden seats of SESC Pompéia.
Historic object
Lincoln rocker, 29.1451.1
Trace the Lincoln rocker from a theatre owner’s furniture to a photographed relic, and discover why its stains cannot be read at a glance.
Design
Living Tower
Climb inside Verner Panton's Living Tower and see how two upholstered elements, four seating levels and one great void turn furniture into social architecture.
Design
Lloyd Loom woven chairs
A Lloyd Loom chair can look like familiar wicker, but its surface begins as a woven sheet. Making the fabric first and fitting it around a frame changes how the chair is produced and how its texture reads.
Design
Lotek lamp
Benno Premsela’s Lotek organises a fine frame and translucent screen into a small luminous volume, with an economical idea that changes scale across a lamp family.
Person
Louis Majorelle
Look inside Louis Majorelle’s workshop, then follow the branching structure of a dressing table with a sink and the collaboration behind a glass lamp.
Person
Louise Brigham
Follow Louise Brigham from Arctic packing crates to a cabinet made from eight herring boxes and the complete interiors pictured in her 1909 Box Furniture.
Historic object
Lupona (royal seat) 1978.412.317
A Luba lupona takes the form of a kneeling woman supporting a royal seat. Explore the carved figure, beads and a ceremonial role beyond everyday sitting.
Design
Luxo L-1 lamp
Luxo L-1 turns the edge of a desk into the starting point for a moving light. Its long articulated arm lets the shade reach towards the work, while a clamp can keep the main surface clear.
Historic object
Mackintosh smoker’s cabinet CIRC.856:1,2-1956
Mackintosh’s yellow inlay was made from milk protein. A conservation investigation explains why keeping its original curled pieces mattered more than a perfectly flat pattern.
Design
Magis Bombo stool
Bombo gathers a bar stool around one central column. The rounded seat seems to hover above its base, while a footrest gives the sitter a second point of contact well above the floor.
Design
Maison du Mexique bookcase
See how Charlotte Perriand used one shallow, two-sided bookcase to store belongings, screen a washbasin and reorganise a 13-square-metre student room.
Design
Makerchair series
Joris Laarman’s Makerchair series divides a chair into interlocking components. The assembly becomes a visible part of its form.
Person
Marijn van der Poll
Marijn van der Poll’s work moves from the participatory Do Hit chair to workplace furniture for Ahrend. The profile follows how familiar actions and forms can start new designs.
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
Marshmallow Sofa
Explore the Marshmallow Sofa through its eighteen separate cushions, a manufacturing idea that failed and Irving Harper’s work in the Nelson office.
Person
Martin Visser
Martin Visser connected furniture design, invited collaborators and contemporary art. His collecting story also includes other members of the family.