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Ercol Pebble nesting tables
How Ercol Pebble nesting tables save space through graduated tops and heights, where the mid-1950s family began, and how today’s three-table and coffee-table nests differ.
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Furniture models and individual historic pieces.
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Ercol Studio Couch
The Studio Couch shows its wooden frame instead of hiding it inside upholstery. Its original catalogue reveals another surprise: the back could be taken off, turning the long settee into a single bed.
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Ercol Windsor dining chairs
How Ercol Windsor dining chairs work: a solid seat joins the bow, spindles and legs, connecting traditional construction with everyday factory production.
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État cabinet
Understand what museum records establish about Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann’s État cabinet, why its 1922 design date differs from an object date, and what remains unproven.
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Extension Chair
Sjoerd Vroonland’s Extension Chair takes the extra jobs people give a dining chair seriously. A coat-stand extension turns an everyday habit into part of the furniture.
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Faaborg Chair
See how Kaare Klint's 1914 Faaborg Chair used mobility, open cane work and visual restraint to help museum visitors look at art rather than at the chair.
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Favela chair
Read Favela through its overlapping wooden strips, shared design credit and Edra’s account of the skilled handwork inside its rough appearance.
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Flag Halyard Chair
Read Hans J. Wegner's 1950 Flag Halyard Chair through its steel outline, repeated cord, selective softness and unusually exposed structure.
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Flax Chair
Christien Meindertsma’s Flax Chair gives a textile fibre another role, combining flax and PLA through collaboration, heat pressing and furniture production.
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FM60 cube chair
Radboud van Beekum’s FM60 puts a seated body inside the outline of a cube. Its clear frame makes the softer inner geometry stand out.
Historic object
Folding armchair (sedia a Savonarola type) 1975.1.1982 ab
A Savonarola chair at the Met combines a nineteenth-century assembly with earlier parts and fifteenth-century velvet. Its appearance holds several dates.
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Fracture Furniture
Ineke Hans’s Fracture Furniture gives a light polystyrene core a hard outer covering, bringing an unexpected making method into chairs and stools.
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Fragile Future
DRIFT’s Fragile Future brings real dandelion seeds together with a modular conducting structure. Its different versions connect delicate manual work with repeated geometry.
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Friso Kramer Revolt chair
Revolt’s seat and back look reassuringly ordinary. Its more surprising idea sits underneath: Friso Kramer shaped the metal frame from sheet steel, giving a daily-use chair a different way to stand.
Historic object
Funadansu, Edo-Tokyo Museum 89207581
Explore a late-Edo ship’s chest through drawers, iron fittings and the documents that kept maritime trade working alongside the cargo.
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G Plan 8040 and 8050 coffee tables
A glass-topped G Plan coffee table lets you see the furniture underneath the furniture. The curved base supplies much of its character, while the familiar “Astro” name hides a surprisingly untidy model history.
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G Plan Brandon furniture
G Plan did not begin with the long teak sideboards that dominate many vintage searches. Brandon opens an earlier chapter: light oak, compact storage and carefully fitted drawers for the routines of a 1950s home.
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G Plan Fresco sideboards
Why G Plan Fresco sideboards look familiar: shaped handles, different cabinet fronts and the history behind the long 4070 and shorter 4072 models.
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G Plan Quadrille dressing tables
Quadrille’s detachable mirror was part of a practical idea: one piece could serve as a bedroom dressing table or a desk. Its open centre and separate drawer groups make that change possible without rebuilding the furniture.
Historic object
Garland Light, MoMA137.2005.2
Tord Boontje’s Garland Light turns a precisely cut metal sheet into an open shade. MoMA’s silver-plated brass example keeps its own 2002 identity.
Historic object
Garrick bed, W.70-1916
Follow the Indian chintz, painted furniture and correspondence behind David and Eva Maria Garrick’s bed, now in the V&A collection.
Design
Gelderland430 Cube Sofa
Jan des Bouvrie’s 1969 Gelderland 430 Cube Sofa gives a sitting area a clear upholstered centre. Its block-like form belongs to a changing Dutch living room.
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Giso 4050 (Panamahoed)
Wim Rietveld’s Panama wall lamp makes reach visible. A broad shade can occupy the room while the lamp stays attached to the wall.
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Gispen 412
A closer look at Gispen 412: how a tubular outline supports upholstery, leaves space open and allows movement through the frame.