Design
Endless chair
Dirk Vander Kooij’s Endless chair makes its robotic production visible in thick layers, connecting a familiar seat with a specific history of reclaimed plastic.
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Person
Enzo Mari
Discover why Enzo Mari offered furniture drawings to readers, how simple boards made structure visible, and what he hoped a homemade chair would teach.
Design
Ercol drop-leaf tables
How Ercol's drop-leaf dining table changes its footprint, what supported the vintage 384 leaves, and how its catalogue dimensions differ from today's 7384.
Design
Ercol Pebble nesting tables
How Ercol Pebble nesting tables save space through graduated tops and heights, where the mid-1950s family began, and how today’s three-table and coffee-table nests differ.
Design
Ercol Studio Couch
The Studio Couch shows its wooden frame instead of hiding it inside upholstery. Its original catalogue reveals another surprise: the back could be taken off, turning the long settee into a single bed.
Design
Ercol Windsor dining chairs
How Ercol Windsor dining chairs work: a solid seat joins the bow, spindles and legs, connecting traditional construction with everyday factory production.
Person
Ernest Gimson
Follow Ernest Gimson from drawing chairs to learning with Philip Clissett, then passing the work to Edward Gardiner and a wider workshop.
Design
État cabinet
Understand what museum records establish about Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann’s État cabinet, why its 1922 design date differs from an object date, and what remains unproven.
Design
Extension Chair
Sjoerd Vroonland’s Extension Chair takes the extra jobs people give a dining chair seriously. A coat-stand extension turns an everyday habit into part of the furniture.
Design
Faaborg Chair
See how Kaare Klint's 1914 Faaborg Chair used mobility, open cane work and visual restraint to help museum visitors look at art rather than at the chair.
Design
Favela chair
Read Favela through its overlapping wooden strips, shared design credit and Edra’s account of the skilled handwork inside its rough appearance.
Person
Finn Juhl
Enter Finn Juhl's house, exhibitions and UN chamber to see how furniture, art, architecture, colour and human use became one connected design problem.
Design
Flag Halyard Chair
Read Hans J. Wegner's 1950 Flag Halyard Chair through its steel outline, repeated cord, selective softness and unusually exposed structure.
Design
Flax Chair
Christien Meindertsma’s Flax Chair gives a textile fibre another role, combining flax and PLA through collaboration, heat pressing and furniture production.
Person
Florence Knoll
Discover how Florence Knoll turned office routines, models and material samples into interiors, down to a cabinet built around a publisher’s newspapers.
Person
Floris Wubben
Floris Wubben’s studio designs shaping tools as well as objects, bringing custom ceramic extrusion, material variation and hand finishing into furniture.
Design
FM60 cube chair
Radboud van Beekum’s FM60 puts a seated body inside the outline of a cube. Its clear frame makes the softer inner geometry stand out.
Historic object
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type) 1975.1.1982 ab
A Savonarola chair at the Met combines a nineteenth-century assembly with earlier parts and fifteenth-century velvet. Its appearance holds several dates.
Design
Fracture Furniture
Ineke Hans’s Fracture Furniture gives a light polystyrene core a hard outer covering, bringing an unexpected making method into chairs and stools.
Design
Fragile Future
DRIFT’s Fragile Future brings real dandelion seeds together with a modular conducting structure. Its different versions connect delicate manual work with repeated geometry.
Person
Frans de la Haye
Frans de la Haye’s engineering and industrial-design background gives Auronde a wider context. Appearance, parts and assembly belong to one product question.
Person
Friso Kramer
Friso Kramer’s ordinary surroundings offer a serious design subject, connecting the Revolt chair with factory knowledge, shared interiors and work beyond furniture.
Design
Friso Kramer Revolt chair
Revolt’s seat and back look reassuringly ordinary. Its more surprising idea sits underneath: Friso Kramer shaped the metal frame from sheet steel, giving a daily-use chair a different way to stand.
Historic object
Funadansu, Edo-Tokyo Museum 89207581
Explore a late-Edo ship’s chest through drawers, iron fittings and the documents that kept maritime trade working alongside the cargo.