Historic object
Bureau du Roi, OA 5444
Discover how Louis XV’s Bureau du Roi combined a locked working surface, several crafts and a political history written into its decoration.
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Historic object
Cabinet attributed to André-Charles Boulle
Look closely at Met cabinet 59.108: a towering object from about 1700 whose marquetry, bronze mounts and hidden substitutions reveal how spectacle and workshop economy worked together.
Historic object
Cabinet of Drawers with Birds, Flowers, and Court Carriage 1989.17a–l
A late-sixteenth-century Japanese export cabinet combines lacquer and mother-of-pearl with a European fall-front writing form. Compare its open and closed faces.
Historic object
Cabinet with scenes from the Story of Esther 64.101.1335
An English embroidered cabinet hides writing storage and a mirrored interior behind raised needlework. Follow its Esther scene and the question of unnamed makers.
Design
Cactus coat stand
Explore the 1972 Cactus coat stand through its scale, branching arms and painted polyurethane surface: a familiar plant made strange indoors.
Historic object
Campeche Chair 2000.451
Follow Campeche Chair 2000.451 from its fixed crossed frame and flower-basket crest through port trade, contested attribution, later copies and long domestic use.
Historic object
Campeche Writing Box 2016.128
Read a seventeenth-century Campeche writing box through its miniature facade, four visible keyholes, contrasting inlays and an incomplete travelling history.
Design
Candy Cube
Sabine Marcelis’s Candy Cube uses polished translucent resin to turn a simple volume into changing colour and light. MoMA’s record identifies a 2014 design.
Technique
Cantilever chair construction
Follow the load through a cantilever chair, from early rigid gas pipes to curved springing steel and the different work done by seat, frame and floor.
Design
Carbon Chair
Why Carbon Chair’s apparently loose network has a deliberate arrangement: shared authorship, carbon fibre and resin, and a surface that carries the structure.
Historic object
Card table 1995.377.1
Conservation revealed a dated inscription beneath Charles-Honoré Lannuier’s card table. Follow the rotating top, hidden signature and sculptural support.
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
Carlton room divider
Discover why Carlton’s coloured diagonals, near-human scale and decorative laminate make a bookcase behave differently in a room.
Person
Carole Baijings
Carole Baijings develops colour through models, materials and production. Her profile connects earlier Scholten & Baijings collaborations with later independently credited furniture.
Historic object
Cassone 15.119.4
A gilded Florentine marriage chest carries a procession across its front. Explore wedding imagery, household storage and the later lid of this cassone.
Technique
Cast-iron garden furniture
Read the leaves, gaps and repeated patterns of cast-iron garden seats, from an American museum bench to Coalbrookdale’s Oak and Ivy design.
Person
Cees Braakman
Cees Braakman connected furniture production knowledge with Pastoe’s adaptable storage, making the factory’s methods part of the customer’s choices.
Design
Cesca chair
Why Marcel Breuer's Cesca chair combines a springing tubular-steel frame with wood and cane, and how its 1928 design relates to later production.
Design
CH07 Shell Chair
See how Hans J. Wegner's 1963 CH07 Shell Chair uses two curved wooden shells, deliberate gaps and three legs to make support appear almost weightless.
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.
Design
CH29 Sawbuck Chair
See how Hans J. Wegner’s 1952 CH29 turned the splayed support of a carpenter’s sawbuck into a wide, curved and unexpectedly sociable dining chair.
Historic object
Chair (One of Set of Four) 1984.47.2
A pale decorated frame surrounds a fine woven seat. The Met’s eighteenth-century chair combines fruitwood, ivory and cane, using solid edges and open surfaces to give an intricately worked object a surprisingly light outline.
Design
Chair 101
Maarten Baas’s Chair 101 uses eight backrest shapes to bring a sense of individual character into a serial chair family for Lensvelt.
Design
Chandigarh furniture
Explore Chandigarh furniture through fitted rooms, workshop drawings and a dressing table signed by Eulie Chowdhury, beyond the detached chair.