Historic object
Shaker Sewing Table 66.10.18
Read one exact 1843 Shaker sewing table from its lipped worktop to its varied drawers and six recorded woods—and see how usefulness creates visual order.
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Objects & designs
Furniture models and individual historic pieces.
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Design
Shylight
DRIFT’s Shylight combines layered silk with controlled motion. Opening on descent and closing on retreat make a hanging light part of the room’s choreography.
Historic object
Side table 1991.87
Edward William Godwin’s walnut side table turns narrow rails, offset shelves and brass braces into an open composition. Explore an Aesthetic Movement design.
Design
Sitzmaschine, model 670
Understand Hoffmann’s Sitzmaschine through its visible adjustment, bentwood loops and the difference between museum examples and a miniature model.
Design
Slim table
Arco’s Slim table pairs a thin wooden appearance with a supporting composite structure, showing how a hidden material decision can keep a room visually open.
Design
SM05 wire chair
Pastoe’s SM05 wire chair lets the room show through its seating surface, with historical co-credit for Cees Braakman and Adriaan Dekker and a separate cushion.
Design
Smoke furniture
Maarten Baas’s Smoke project made an altered furniture surface part of a new identity, preserving visible damage rather than concealing it.
Historic object
Sofa 1999.396
A rosewood sofa associated with John Henry Belter joins elaborate carving to laminated construction. Read its silhouette alongside his 1858 furniture patent.
Design
Soriana seating
Look at Soriana through its soft upholstered body and visible metal brace, with the 1969 design distinguished from the 2021 material revision.
Design
Spanish Chair
See how Børge Mogensen's 1958 Spanish Chair turns broad oak arms, saddle-leather planes and exposed buckles into one readable structure.
Design
Sphere Table
Hella Jongerius’s Sphere Table puts a coloured half-sphere over one working place. The room stays continuous while the table gains a sheltered corner.
Design
Stag C Range chests
A Stag C Range chest asks you to notice something that is missing: the usual row of knobs. Its recessed handgrips leave the drawers almost uninterrupted, giving a modest bedroom chest a surprisingly composed face.
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Stag Minstrel chests
The story behind Stag Minstrel chests: why ring handles, a shaped base and coordinated bedroom storage gave modern furniture a traditional accent.
Design
Steltman Chair
Rietveld’s Steltman chair began as a mirrored pair for a jeweller. Its original upholstery and later wooden versions tell different stories.
Design
Stokke Tripp Trapp chair
Tripp Trapp looks unusual because it begins with the table rather than the chair. Peter Opsvik wanted a growing child to join the same surface as everyone else, with a seat and a little floor that could move to suit them.
Design
String shelving system
The history of String shelving, Kajsa and Nisse Strinning’s 1949 competition design, its open wire sides, adjustable storage and the separate later String Pocket.
Design
Strip chair
Gijs Bakker’s Strip chair turns laminated wooden strips into a readable furniture structure, with bent beech, ash veneer and a clear route through the object.
Design
Stripped lamp
Floris Wubben’s Stripped lamp divides a branch into supports and turns its peeled bark into a shade, keeping the source material recognisable.
Design
Superonda
Discover how Archizoom turned a cut block of foam into Superonda, a sofa whose two pieces invite different arrangements, postures and uses of a room.
Design
SZ 63 armchair
Martin Visser’s SZ 63 gives timber, upholstery and a square metal frame different jobs. Its material variants reveal what keeps the chair recognisable.
Design
Tavolo con Ruote
Look through Gae Aulenti’s glass table to see how four industrial castors turn a workshop idea into living-room furniture.
Historic object
Tester bed (lit à la duchesse en impériale) 23.235a
Georges Jacob’s eighteenth-century tester bed separates its canopy from its frame. Explore ceiling suspension, collaborative making and replacement textiles.
Design
The Big Bubble
Alex de Witte’s Big Bubble gives a hanging light a variable mouth-blown glass outline. Craft control leaves room for differences between examples.
Historic object
The Farnese Table 58.57a–d
Nearly four metres wide, the Farnese Table turns coloured stone into a statement of Renaissance power. Explore its alabaster panels, carved piers and attributions.