Design
Polder sofa
Read Hella Jongerius’s Polder sofa through neighbouring fabrics, unequal edges and the changing construction of its distinctive buttons.
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Objects & designs
Furniture models and individual historic pieces.
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Design
Pompei Armchair
Read Alberto Orlandi's Pompei Armchair through its enclosing steel rail, leather planes, curule-like stance and brass details, then see why later catalogues date it only to circa 1980–85.
Design
Portex Chair
See how Peter Hvidt and Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen turned export and stacking into the quiet geometry of the 1944–45 Portex chair.
Design
Pratone
How Pratone’s oversized soft grass changes the act of sitting: the human scale, yielding polyurethane and shared space behind Ceretti, Derossi and Rosso’s design.
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Press Room Chair
Gerrit Rietveld’s Press Room Chair links an unexecuted 1958 proposal to production in 2014. Its tilted planes and swivel base make the idea easy to read.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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Result Chair
Look beneath Result’s familiar wooden seat to discover shaped sheet steel and the collaboration of Friso Kramer and Wim Rietveld.
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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.
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Ribbon chair
Pierre Paulin’s Ribbon for Artifort makes hidden construction read as a continuous upholstered surface. Follow the form around its bends.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.