Design
Gispen415 / later1401 armchair
Wim Rietveld’s armchair began as Gispen 415 before becoming 1401. Its open relationship between frame, seat and back helps explain a design history with later, separately credited revisions.
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Design
GJ Chair
See how Grete Jalk's 1963 GJ Chair turns two moulded-plywood shells, a narrow gap and demanding lamination into the illusion of one continuous bow.
Design
Grandessa Rocking Chair
Discover how Lena Larsson's 1958 Grandessa Rocking Chair for Nesto turns a tall wooden outline, open spindles and long runners into furniture for an active room.
Historic object
Great Bed of Ware
Discover why the enormous Great Bed of Ware became an inn attraction, a literary reference and a piece of furniture carrying generations of visitors’ marks.
Design
HÅG Capisco chair
Capisco hardly resembles the padded office chair most people would draw from memory. Its saddle-like seat and branching back come from Peter Opsvik’s interest in allowing a person to change how they sit.
Design
Hanging Egg Chair
See how Nanna and Jørgen Ditzel's Hanging Egg removes legs, suspends a woven rattan shell and turns sitting into a gently moving room within a room.
Historic object
Hatnefer's Chair 36.3.152
Read Hatnefer's low Dynasty 18 chair through its original linen cord, pegged mortise-and-tenon joints, protective symbols and exact tomb findspot.
Design
Heatwave radiator
Joris Laarman’s Heatwave gives a wall radiator an ornamental outline, connecting curling decoration with a useful heating surface.
Design
Heracleum
Bertjan Pot’s Heracleum makes slender branches carry light and structure together. Its 2010 development and later family retain distinct design and technical contributions.
Design
Herman Miller Aeron chair
Aeron made an office chair’s supporting surface visible. Where a conventional chair hid foam beneath upholstery, Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick stretched a mesh-like material across an exposed frame.
Design
Hidde armchair
Hidde turns the idea of a catching glove into a broad cupped armchair. Its loose cover lets folds become part of the visible character.
Design
Hille Interplan storage
A small Interplan cabinet can look rather self-contained in a vintage shop. Robin Day’s larger idea appears when you imagine the space around it: another unit, a low bench and several ways to organise the same room.
Design
Hoosier-type kitchen cabinets
Read the Hoosier cabinet as a compact kitchen workplace, from flour storage and an enamel counter to the advertising promise of fewer steps.
Design
Hunzinger woven-wire furniture system
See how George Jakob Hunzinger’s 1876 patent turned textile-covered steel strips, grooved frames and interchangeable parts into a furniture system.
Design
IJhorst stool
Constant Nieuwenhuys’s IJhorst uses a circular top and an open wire-steel base. Its small size makes a geometric structure easy to notice in the room.
Design
IKEA BILLY bookcase
The history of IKEA BILLY, from incompatible earlier shelves to a repeatable bookcase, with the 1978 and 1979 dates explained and a look at its adjustable interior.
Design
IKEA EXPEDIT and KALLAX shelving
A shelf full of records makes the size of an empty compartment surprisingly important. When IKEA replaced EXPEDIT with KALLAX in 2014, that useful opening became the part of the design it chose to preserve.
Design
IKEA GUIDE and BYAKORRE shelving
GUIDE made a bookshelf from slender wire sides and broad laminate shelves. Niels Gammelgaard found an opportunity for colour inside the production process, giving a practical open structure a playful edge.
Design
IKEA IVAR shelving
How IKEA IVAR grew from earlier storage shelving, why its pine frame and visible adjustment holes matter, and how the familiar name differs from the system’s ancestry.
Design
IKEA KLIPPAN sofa
KLIPPAN looks like a simple upholstered box. Its more interesting feature can be taken off: a cover that brings laundry, changing tastes and the possibility of a second life into the design of a sofa.
Design
IKEA LACK side table
Why IKEA LACK is light despite its thick square shape: its connection to door manufacture, the 1979 product entry, and the honeycomb filling in today’s tabletop.
Design
IKEA LÖVET and LÖVBACKEN tables
The little leaf-shaped IKEA table has lived through two very different eras. LÖVET belonged to the 1950s catalogue; LÖVBACKEN brought the outline back in 2013, with a new name and a fresh material brief.
Design
IKEA MOMENT sofa
The wire grid behind MOMENT’s cushions has an unexpectedly practical origin. IKEA Museum connects the sofa to a visit to a shopping-trolley factory, where a different kind of steel furniture suggested a new way to build a seat.
Design
IKEA NORDEN gateleg table
NORDEN changes the amount of table in a room. Its folding leaves are easy to notice; the more revealing detail is underneath, where a leg swings out to meet the surface it will support.