Design
Thonet B 9 nesting tables
A nest of B 9 tables is furniture waiting to spread out. Marcel Breuer’s four small surfaces can gather into one compact group, then separate to follow the people sitting around a room.
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Thonet Chair No. 14
See how Michael Thonet joined steam-bent beech, six wooden parts, simple hardware and compact shipping to turn one 1859 café chair into a global system.
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Three Pair stool
Aldo Bakker’s Three Pair combines three curved stone elements into a small seat. Its assembly is part of the outline a reader learns to follow.
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Timberline Floor Lamp
Read Mads Caprani’s Timberline Floor Lamp as a balance problem: a long laminated curve, distant pleated shade, discreet cable and anchoring iron base.
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Toio
Follow Toio from an automobile headlamp and fishing-rod rings to a floor lamp whose borrowed parts keep their practical jobs visible.
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Tolix Chair A
Tolix Chair A makes its industrial construction part of the view. Its shaped metal surfaces and open frame turn the practical business of sitting, moving and stacking into a recognisable outline.
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Tonus wooden stool
Aldo Bakker’s wooden Tonus stool turns solid oak into swelling, muscular transitions. Rutger Graas’s making keeps the craft partnership visible.
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Total Furnishing Unit
Explore the four independent volumes of Total Furnishing Unit, the 1972 exhibition proposal by Joe Colombo with Ignazia Favata.
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Traccia table
Look at Meret Oppenheim’s Traccia through its two bird-like legs, oval top and footprints, keeping the 1939 idea distinct from later editions.
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Transience Mirrors
Lex Pott and David Derksen bring the silver layer of a mirror into view. Transience sets irregular surface changes within a clear geometric composition.
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Tree Trunk Bench
Jurgen Bey’s Tree Trunk Bench pairs a locally chosen trunk with bronze chair backs, making a shared seat from something a place can already provide.
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Tube Chair
Discover how Joe Colombo’s four hollow padded tubes can become a seat, change arrangement and pack inside one another without folding.
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Until Dawn curtain
Tord Boontje’s Until Dawn turns four folded, die-cut layers into a reflected natural pattern. The manufacturing sequence becomes part of the curtain’s appearance.
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UP5_6
Discover the original vacuum-packed UP5_6, its chair-and-ball imagery, and why the 2000 re-edition arrives in a different way.
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USM Haller storage system
A USM Haller sideboard is one arrangement of a larger idea. Behind the coloured panels is a repeated metal skeleton, developed from an architect and an engineer’s interest in buildings that could adapt.
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Utrecht armchair
How Gerrit Rietveld’s Utrecht armchair brings a firm geometric outline together with padded volumes, and why its later Cassina production is a separate chapter.
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Valet Chair
See how Hans J. Wegner’s 1953 Valet Chair turns a hanger, trouser support, seat and pocket-sized compartment into one remarkably composed object.
Historic object
Vanderbilt Library Table 1972.47
Look across Herter Brothers' monumental Vanderbilt library table: a birthday sky, shell-inlaid globes and imperial references turn furniture into portraiture.
Design
Verona Pendant
See how Sven Middelboe’s 1968 Verona pendant uses nested aluminium shades to conceal the bulb, soften glare and make the fitting itself glow.
Historic object
Vichr metal-furniture catalogue, Cooper Hewitt copy, c 1937
Read a Czech metal-furniture catalogue as a proposal for domestic life, from beds and chairs to plant stands and coordinated interiors.
Design
Vico Magistretti Selene chair
Selene’s smooth seat gives little away. Look at the legs instead: their folded section is the clever part. Vico Magistretti used shape to give a slender plastic chair the presence of an ordinary dining chair.
Design
Vision storage system
Vision turns storage into a composition of planes and volumes. Pierre Mazairac and Karel Boonzaaijer designed the system for Pastoe in 1985.
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Visiona II
Enter the idea behind Verner Panton’s 1970 Visiona 2: a temporary interior where colour, upholstery and changing levels shaped ways to rest.
Historic object
Walnut chest from the Mary Rose carpenter’s cabin
Look inside the Mary Rose carpenter’s cabin, where three different chests held tools, clothing traces and a small collection of personal possessions.