Design
Beugel chair
Follow the curved steel supports and shaped plywood of Rietveld’s Beugel chair, an open furniture family documented in distinct museum examples.
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Furniture models and individual historic pieces.
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Design
Birza Chair
The Birza Chair asks how much a continuous fibre sheet can do. Rietveld’s experiment shifts attention from assembling members to shaping surfaces.
Design
Bisley MultiDrawer cabinet
A deep drawer hides things in layers. A Bisley MultiDrawer gives those layers separate handles. Its quiet usefulness grew from office paperwork, but the same idea makes sense wherever small objects accumulate.
Design
Black Beauties furniture
Ineke Hans’s Black Beauties turns a children’s furniture collection into a set of clear silhouettes, using black recycled plastic.
Historic object
Blanket Chest 66.10.15
Blue paint changes the familiar picture of Shaker furniture. Examine a pine blanket chest with a deep drawer and a surviving history of painted surfaces.
Design
Blow armchair
Discover the 1967 Blow armchair through its inflated PVC chambers, welded seams and the shared authorship of De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi and Scolari.
Historic object
Bobbin Lace Lamp, BoijmansV 2350(KN&V)
Niels van Eijk’s Bobbin Lace Lamp connects textile organisation with a glass-fibre object. Boijmans’s 2002 record and a separately dated label keep the evidence precise.
Design
Bocca sofa
Follow Bocca from a Milan waiting room to a recognisable sofa, through Studio65’s visual joke, Gufram’s foam and a change of scale.
Design
Bone Chair
Joris Laarman’s Bone Chair connected growth-inspired computation to a cast object. The paper study and museum examples remain distinct.
Design
Bookworm
Read Bookworm through Ron Arad’s account of drawing an imaginary line on a wall, then turning flexible shelving into an industrial product.
Design
BR 02 sofa bed
Martin Visser’s BR 02 connects an open daytime sofa with a level sleeping surface. Follow the shift, its dates and the later armrest.
Historic object
Bronto prototype, Centraal Museum 28498
Richard Hutten’s 1997 Bronto prototype links rotational moulding with a variable surface. Two plastic types make difference part of a repeated furniture idea.
Historic object
Bronze Age Lounge Chair, CM 35822/Van Abbe 3852
Frank Tjepkema’s 2014 Bronze Age Lounge Chair gives bronze a delicate-looking furniture outline. One artefact is jointly held by Centraal Museum and Van Abbemuseum.
Design
Bruynzeel kitchen
Piet Zwart’s Bruynzeel kitchen joined standard components to domestic work. Its efficiency also carried assumptions about who worked there.
Design
Bulb lamp
Discover the lamp inside Ingo Maurer’s Bulb, his remembered encounter with a bare bulb in Venice and the glassmaking behind a familiar enlarged shape.
Historic object
Bureau du Roi, OA 5444
Discover how Louis XV’s Bureau du Roi combined a locked working surface, several crafts and a political history written into its decoration.
Historic object
Cabinet attributed to André-Charles Boulle
Look closely at Met cabinet 59.108: a towering object from about 1700 whose marquetry, bronze mounts and hidden substitutions reveal how spectacle and workshop economy worked together.
Historic object
Cabinet of Drawers with Birds, Flowers, and Court Carriage 1989.17a–l
A late-sixteenth-century Japanese export cabinet combines lacquer and mother-of-pearl with a European fall-front writing form. Compare its open and closed faces.
Historic object
Cabinet with scenes from the Story of Esther 64.101.1335
An English embroidered cabinet hides writing storage and a mirrored interior behind raised needlework. Follow its Esther scene and the question of unnamed makers.
Design
Cactus coat stand
Explore the 1972 Cactus coat stand through its scale, branching arms and painted polyurethane surface: a familiar plant made strange indoors.
Historic object
Campeche Chair 2000.451
Follow Campeche Chair 2000.451 from its fixed crossed frame and flower-basket crest through port trade, contested attribution, later copies and long domestic use.
Historic object
Campeche Writing Box 2016.128
Read a seventeenth-century Campeche writing box through its miniature facade, four visible keyholes, contrasting inlays and an incomplete travelling history.
Design
Candy Cube
Sabine Marcelis’s Candy Cube uses polished translucent resin to turn a simple volume into changing colour and light. MoMA’s record identifies a 2014 design.
Design
Carbon Chair
Why Carbon Chair’s apparently loose network has a deliberate arrangement: shared authorship, carbon fibre and resin, and a surface that carries the structure.