Design
Rag Chair
See how Tejo Remy’s Rag Chair turns layers of second-hand clothes into seating, with metal straps keeping structure and material history visible.
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Design
Random Light
Random Light begins around an inflated ball and remains after the support disappears. Bertjan Pot makes a temporary tool leave an airy spherical form.
Design
Reading Chair
See how Finn Juhl's 1953 Reading Chair uses an open back and one horizontal rail to support two ways of sitting without adding a mechanism.
Design
Red Blue Chair
See how Gerrit Rietveld separated wooden lines, a seat and a back into one open chair—and why its famous red, blue and yellow arrived after the form.
Person
Renny Ramakers
Renny Ramakers shows how choosing, commissioning and arranging can start a design conversation, from Droog’s shared presentations to new work with unwanted stock.
Design
Result Chair
Look beneath Result’s familiar wooden seat to discover shaped sheet steel and the collaboration of Friso Kramer and Wim Rietveld.
Design
REX chair
Ineke Hans’s REX for Circuform makes the route after use part of a chair project, connecting recycled PA6, components and an organised return scheme.
Design
Ribbon chair
Pierre Paulin’s Ribbon for Artifort makes hidden construction read as a continuous upholstered surface. Follow the form around its bends.
Person
Richard Hutten
Richard Hutten’s 2018 exhibition joined his own designs with chairs he collected. The collection reveals design as an ongoing conversation with objects and people.
Design
Robin Day 675 chair
The 675 chair’s wooden back does not stop where the arms begin. One broad plywood curve travels around the sitter, giving Robin Day’s compact chair a continuous gesture above its thin steel frame.
Design
Robin Day Hille polypropylene chairs
How Robin Day and Hille made a polypropylene shell work as everyday seating, from the 1963 introduction to the rolled edge, concealed fixings and later versions.
Design
Royal System
See how Poul Cadovius's 1948 Royal System moved storage off the floor and turned rails, hangers, shelves and cabinets into a revisable wall.
Person
Sabine Marcelis
Sabine Marcelis explores furniture, mirrors and light through material experiments. Museum and manufacturer records show how collaboration turns optical effects into designed objects.
Design
Sacco
Explore Gatti, Paolini and Teodoro’s Sacco through its moving filling, an early photograph and the difference between a design and its later editions.
Design
Safari Chair
See how Kaare Klint's 1933 KK47000 Safari Chair turns knock-down joints, canvas and leather straps into a complete chair—and how to separate its design, maker and vintage-object histories.
Historic object
Salem worktable, 46.67.110a–c
Read the Met’s Salem worktable, 1805–10, through its silk workbag, fitted writing drawer and slender reeded legs, with maker attribution kept precise.
Person
Sam Maloof
Look beyond the smooth curves of Sam Maloof’s chairs to a workshop of templates and machines, a revealing early commission and a rocking chair made for two.
Historic object
Samuel Gragg Side Chair 1980.496
Follow the continuous bent members, fitted slats and klismos profile that make Samuel Gragg’s Side Chair 1980.496 an astonishing experiment from about 1810.
Historic object
Schastey Patent Model 2008.639
See how George A. Schastey's ten-inch upholstered chair turned an adjustable reclining mechanism into a physical argument for US Patent 145,595.
Design
Schröder Small Table
Rietveld’s small Schröder Table turns coloured planes into a changing spatial composition. Look around it, rather than only at its top.
Design
Scrapwood Cupboard
Piet Hein Eek’s Scrapwood Cupboard makes used timber visible. Selection, arrangement and careful making give the leftovers their new order.
Design
SE 69 dining chair
Martin Visser’s SE 69 lets upholstery soften the sitting places while a square-tube frame keeps the chair’s outline clear.
Person
Sergio Rodrigues
Discover the studio request behind Sergio Rodrigues’s Mole, and how a wooden frame, leather straps and loose cushions changed Brazilian seating.
Design
Set Up Shades
Marcel Wanders repeats the familiar lampshade outline until it becomes an entire lamp. Moooi describes a solid construction behind the apparent stack.