Design
Les Arcs fitted interiors
Explore Les Arcs through long apartments, fitted furniture, prefabricated service units and the wooden strip that gathered several jobs beside a bed.
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Objects & designs
Furniture models and individual historic pieces.
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Historic object
Lightshade-shade chandelier, Centraal Museum28654
Jurgen Bey’s Light Shade Shade places a chandelier inside reflective foil. Centraal Museum 28654 shows how light can reveal an object that its shade first conceals.
Historic object
Lincoln rocker, 29.1451.1
Trace the Lincoln rocker from a theatre owner’s furniture to a photographed relic, and discover why its stains cannot be read at a glance.
Design
Living Tower
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.
Design
Lloyd Loom woven chairs
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.
Design
Lotek lamp
Benno Premsela’s Lotek organises a fine frame and translucent screen into a small luminous volume, with an economical idea that changes scale across a lamp family.
Historic object
Lupona (royal seat) 1978.412.317
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.
Design
Luxo L-1 lamp
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.
Historic object
Mackintosh smoker’s cabinet CIRC.856:1,2-1956
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.
Design
Magis Bombo stool
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.
Design
Maison du Mexique bookcase
See how Charlotte Perriand used one shallow, two-sided bookcase to store belongings, screen a washbasin and reorganise a 13-square-metre student room.
Design
Makerchair series
Joris Laarman’s Makerchair series divides a chair into interlocking components. The assembly becomes a visible part of its form.
Design
Marshmallow Sofa
Explore the Marshmallow Sofa through its eighteen separate cushions, a manufacturing idea that failed and Irving Harper’s work in the Nelson office.
Historic object
Mästermyr tool chest 21592:132
Saws, drawknives, tongs and hammers travelled together in the Mästermyr chest. Its oak boards, iron lock and reusable scrap reveal the connections between crafts.
Historic object
Mechanical Table 33.12
Open Riesener’s 1778 table for Marie Antoinette: a crank raises its marquetry top while panels become a lectern, mirror and six compartments.
Design
Meltingpot table
Kooij’s Meltingpot gives prototypes and colour tests another use, pressing them into a solid table whose changing pattern belongs to the material itself.
Historic object
Merry-Go-Round Coat Rack, Boijmans V2669a-o(KN&V)
Studio Wieki Somers’s commissioned 2008 cloakroom raised coats into an overhead display. The exact Boijmans artefact connects a familiar museum ritual with a collective spatial experience.
Historic object
Mesh Chair, MoMA 128.2010
Chris Kabel’s Mesh Chair uses shaped expanded-metal panels and welded seams to bring supporting structure and a patterned seating surface into the same material.
Historic object
Metamorphic Library Chair NT 354260
Discover the four steps hidden in a Regency library armchair, the hinge that changes its role and the evidence behind its Morgan and Sanders attribution.
Historic object
Microstructures aluminium gradient chair prototype, NGV 2016.425
The NGV’s 2014 aluminium prototype by Joris Laarman varies its cellular structure across the chair, making material density part of the design.
Design
Milk Bottle Lamp
Tejo Remy’s Milk Bottle Lamp keeps the familiar bottle shape and changes its setting. A twelve-bottle arrangement lifts the order of a milk crate above the floor.
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Miss Blanche chair
Look inside Shiro Kuramata’s 1988 Miss Blanche chair: artificial roses suspended in acrylic, purple aluminium legs and the labour behind an illusion of lightness.
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Model 370 Boomerang Chair
Read Alfred Christensen’s Model 370 Boomerang Chair in profile, where one angular timber side member turns seat support into the defining silhouette.
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Mondial Chair
Gerrit and Wim Rietveld’s Mondial chair brings its structure into a compact meeting point. A museum example helps separate the original idea from later variants.