Historic object
Card table 1995.377.1
Conservation revealed a dated inscription beneath Charles-Honoré Lannuier’s card table. Follow the rotating top, hidden signature and sculptural support.
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Objects & designs
Furniture models and individual historic pieces.
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Design
Carlton room divider
Discover why Carlton’s coloured diagonals, near-human scale and decorative laminate make a bookcase behave differently in a room.
Historic object
Cassone 15.119.4
A gilded Florentine marriage chest carries a procession across its front. Explore wedding imagery, household storage and the later lid of this cassone.
Design
Cesca chair
Why Marcel Breuer's Cesca chair combines a springing tubular-steel frame with wood and cane, and how its 1928 design relates to later production.
Design
CH07 Shell Chair
See how Hans J. Wegner's 1963 CH07 Shell Chair uses two curved wooden shells, deliberate gaps and three legs to make support appear almost weightless.
Design
CH24 Wishbone Chair
Read the CH24 Wishbone Chair through its dates, curved frame, Y-shaped support, joinery and paper-cord seat—then separate model history from vintage-object evidence.
Design
CH29 Sawbuck Chair
See how Hans J. Wegner’s 1952 CH29 turned the splayed support of a carpenter’s sawbuck into a wide, curved and unexpectedly sociable dining chair.
Historic object
Chair (One of Set of Four) 1984.47.2
A pale decorated frame surrounds a fine woven seat. The Met’s eighteenth-century chair combines fruitwood, ivory and cane, using solid edges and open surfaces to give an intricately worked object a surprisingly light outline.
Design
Chair 101
Maarten Baas’s Chair 101 uses eight backrest shapes to bring a sense of individual character into a serial chair family for Lensvelt.
Design
Chandigarh furniture
Explore Chandigarh furniture through fitted rooms, workshop drawings and a dressing table signed by Eulie Chowdhury, beyond the detached chair.
Historic object
Charles Darwin’s writing chair at Down House
Bedframe supports, castors and a writing board changed Darwin’s armchair. Its patched arms and his son’s memories reveal a working arrangement shaped around one person.
Design
Charly armchair
Gerard van den Berg’s Charly treats an upholstered cover like a padded garment. A generous body sits above slender visible legs.
Historic object
Chest decorated with phoenixes, colored roundels (taegeuk), and flowers 63.121.1a–k
A Korean chest combines mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, rayskin and brass. Look closely at how contrasting inlays build phoenixes and flowers across its doors.
Design
Chieftain Chair
Read Finn Juhl's 1949 Chieftain Chair through its commanding scale, exposed timber frame, suspended leather forms, Guild debut and complicated name.
Historic object
Child’s high chair, 64.101.899
Look at the Met’s seventeenth-century walnut high chair through its proportions, turned rails and the different domestic scene in Maes’s The Lacemaker.
Historic object
Chinese Lacquer Folding Chair 69.217
Read Chinese Folding Chair 69.217 from its crossed legs to its carved flycatchers, and discover how a mobile frame became a dense surface of craft and good wishes.
Design
Chubby chair
Kooij’s Chubby shows what remains after robotic printing: handwork, contrasting surface finishes and an assembled current chair. The making continues beyond extrusion.
Design
Cinderella Table
Demakersvan and Jeroen Verhoeven’s Cinderella Table turns historic furniture profiles into flowing plywood form. Computer cutting and patient handwork belong to the same story.
Design
Cirkel Coffee Table 01
Daphna Isaacs Burggraaf and Laurens Manders develop Cirkel furniture from a circle. Coffee Table 01 shows how cutting, turning and contrasting materials give geometry a new role.
Design
Clay furniture
Maarten Baas’s Clay furniture retains the marks of hand modelling over a metal skeleton, giving a finished object a lively and visibly individual surface.
Design
Cleopatra daybed
Auping’s Cleopatra combines an open steel structure and wooden end details, giving a single bed a restrained appearance within a room used throughout the day.
Design
Colour Wood side tables
Scholten & Baijings’s Colour Wood side tables layer grain, translucent colour and printed pattern. Their Japanese production history gives small timber sections a new visual role.
Historic object
Commode 2020.371
Tiny wooden nails explain the sweeping curves of Pietro Piffetti’s Turin commode: a close look at veneer, fastening and the cabinetmaker’s own furniture.
Historic object
Congo armchair, Centraal Museum 26422
Theo Ruth’s Congo armchair makes the meeting of its two major assemblies part of the design. Centraal Museum’s 1953 example gives the story a precise anchor.