Historic object
Warren Centripetal Spring Chair 147:1965
Look beneath the velvet and fringe of Warren’s Centripetal Spring Chair 147:1965 to see how crossed leaf springs, a central support and casters made furniture move.
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Design
Well Proven Chair
Marjan van Aubel and James Shaw’s Well Proven Chair brings workshop shavings into a shaped seating material, in contrast with its recognisable timber support.
Design
Wim Rietveld Pyramid tables
A Pyramid table can look like something remembered from school. Wim Rietveld’s spare steel base belongs to furniture made for repeated daily use, and that useful simplicity travels easily into a home.
Design
Wood Ring bench
Chris Kabel’s Wood Ring uses a circular timber seat to create an inward shared space. Its grain and retaining metal belt make the material arrangement visible.
Design
Wooton Patent Secretary
Open William S. Wooton’s 1874 patent secretary to see how hinged filing wings, a writing leaf, grades and locks compressed a Victorian office into one cabinet.
Design
You Can’t Lay Down Your Memory chest of drawers
New maple housings give old drawers somewhere to work again. Tejo Remy’s chest reverses the usual relationship between a cabinet and its contents.
Design
Zig-Zag Chair
Four wooden planes give Rietveld’s Zig-Zag Chair its outline. The corners explain why a simple silhouette can conceal demanding work.
Design
Zzzidt
Richard Hutten’s Zzzidt gives a hard sphere flat faces and a handle. A small change in form makes carrying, sitting and placing things part of one object’s story.