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Furniture models and individual historic pieces.
Jieldé’s round elbows are more than a strong industrial look. They belong to a lamp designed to move repeatedly around workshop tasks, with electrical contact carried through the joints instead of a cable bending at every articulation.
Boby puts several kinds of storage within arm’s reach: open shelves, upright compartments and pivoting trays. Joe Colombo’s compact trolley turns the tools around a desk into a small workspace that can move.
Read Jørgen Høj’s 1951 side chair through its two visual systems: a slender timber frame and broad woven rattan seat and back planes.
Anna Castelli Ferrieri’s Componibili storage, the round sliding door and its space-saving movement, plus why current fixed units are not freely stackable modules.
A drinks trolley can spend more time waiting than serving. Gastone treats that quiet interval as part of the design: its surfaces fold, reducing the space the trolley claims once the occasion is over.
Louis Ghost is easy to recognise and easy to see through. Philippe Starck kept the oval back, arms and upright presence of a historical chair, then gave those familiar signals a transparent plastic body.
Maui can disappear into a meeting room or around a kitchen table. Look closely at its plastic shell and it becomes more interesting: the smooth curves are carrying structural work that other chairs give to visible ribs.
Discover Esben Klint’s 1948 Model 307, where a slender brass stand lets a hand-folded Model 2 shade create volume, stiffness and softened light.
See how one pull transforms Jean François Leleu's c. 1775–85 cylinder-top desk from a restrained mahogany case into a fitted place for writing.
Climb inside Verner Panton's Living Tower and see how two upholstered elements, four seating levels and one great void turn furniture into social architecture.
A Lloyd Loom chair can look like familiar wicker, but its surface begins as a woven sheet. Making the fabric first and fitting it around a frame changes how the chair is produced and how its texture reads.
A Luba lupona takes the form of a kneeling woman supporting a royal seat. Explore the carved figure, beads and a ceremonial role beyond everyday sitting.
Luxo L-1 turns the edge of a desk into the starting point for a moving light. Its long articulated arm lets the shade reach towards the work, while a clamp can keep the main surface clear.
Mackintosh’s yellow inlay was made from milk protein. A conservation investigation explains why keeping its original curled pieces mattered more than a perfectly flat pattern.
Bombo gathers a bar stool around one central column. The rounded seat seems to hover above its base, while a footrest gives the sitter a second point of contact well above the floor.
See how Charlotte Perriand used one shallow, two-sided bookcase to store belongings, screen a washbasin and reorganise a 13-square-metre student room.
Saws, drawknives, tongs and hammers travelled together in the Mästermyr chest. Its oak boards, iron lock and reusable scrap reveal the connections between crafts.
Open Riesener’s 1778 table for Marie Antoinette: a crank raises its marquetry top while panels become a lectern, mirror and six compartments.
Read Alfred Christensen’s Model 370 Boomerang Chair in profile, where one angular timber side member turns seat support into the defining silhouette.
Rex offers a shaped wooden seat and a useful way to put it away. Niko Kralj combined curved, slotted plywood with folding, so a chair generous enough for sitting could make room for the rest of life.
Oeben’s Getty mechanical table opens a hidden workspace and rewinds its springs when closed. Its darkened floral inlay reveals another, slower transformation.
Follow Verner Panton's one-piece cantilever through its 1967 pilot, polyurethane series, thermoplastic failure and 1999 polypropylene return.
The Parker Knoll Penshurst wing chair, the tension springs beneath its cushion, and what a documented 1966 example reveals about upholstery and furniture history.
Read Finn Juhl's 1940 Pelican Chair through its hidden frame, low upholstered body, projecting sides, difficult debut and much later return.