Design
Mouille three-arm floor lamp
Follow Serge Mouille’s three-arm lamp from its branching steel body to brass joints and white-lined shades that give each light a direction.
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Objects & designs
Furniture models and individual historic pieces.
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Historic object
Napoleon’s camp bed, Musée de l’Armée
Explore the folding bed associated with Napoleon, the Desouches system of travelling furniture and the distinction between two surviving Saint Helena beds.
Design
Niko Kralj Rex folding lounge chair
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.
Historic object
No Screw No Glue Chair, Centraal Museum 35239
Joost van Bleiswijk’s 2003 birch-plywood chair at Centraal Museum makes interlocking panel shapes the starting point of its construction.
Design
No Sign of Design Chair
Richard Hutten’s No Sign of Design Chair makes an ordinary outline worth noticing. A simple arrangement can direct attention to use and proportion.
Design
Oase lounge chair
Wim Rietveld’s Oase separates an upholstered seating body from an open tubular support. Two museum records anchor the design story.
Historic object
Oeben mechanical table 70.DA.84
Oeben’s Getty mechanical table opens a hidden workspace and rewinds its springs when closed. Its darkened floral inlay reveals another, slower transformation.
Historic object
Original gravity stool, NGV2016.1047
Jólan van der Wiel’s Gravity Stool makes a magnetic field part of the forming process. The NGV example separates a 2011 design from a 2016 object.
Historic object
Painting table, 1996.338
Read the Met’s huanghuali painting table through its broad clear top and the close, gradual experience of opening a Chinese handscroll.
Design
Panton Chair
Follow Verner Panton's one-piece cantilever through its 1967 pilot, polyurethane series, thermoplastic failure and 1999 polypropylene return.
Design
Paper Cabinet
Studio Job’s open-shelf Paper Cabinet gives a classical furniture outline a different material life. Paper, wood and coating participate in a deliberately surprising assembly.
Historic object
Paper Chair, BoijmansV 2506(KN&V)
Jeroen Wand’s Paper Chair turns laminated and pressed paper into furniture. A 2006 Boijmans object anchors a story of layers, joints and ideas borrowed between materials.
Historic object
Papier-mâché Étagère 1999.50.2
Look beneath the black lacquer of a Victorian display stand to a mixture of wood and papier-mâché, bright shell decoration and a debate about ornament.
Design
Parker Knoll Penshurst chair
The Parker Knoll Penshurst wing chair, the tension springs beneath its cushion, and what a documented 1966 example reveals about upholstery and furniture history.
Design
Pastoe Made-to-Measure
Pastoe’s Made-to-Measure system connected standard panels, repeatable corners and customer choice, with contributions from Braakman and Bus.
Design
Pelican Chair
Read Finn Juhl's 1940 Pelican Chair through its hidden frame, low upholstered body, projecting sides, difficult debut and much later return.
Design
Penguin Donkey
Explore the two book panniers of Egon Riss’s 1939 Penguin Donkey, its connection to paperback publishing and the later designs that share its name.
Historic object
Petronella Oortman Dolls' House BK-NM-1010
Open Petronella Oortman's c. 1686–1710 dolls' house and see why its full-size cabinet, exact materials and ordered rooms made it a collection, not a toy.
Design
PH 4/3 Table Lamp
Decode Poul Henningsen’s PH 4/3: a 40-centimetre-class top shade paired with smaller 3/3 lower shades to control glare and bring light closer.
Design
PH Artichoke
See how Poul Henningsen's PH Artichoke overlaps 72 metal leaves to hide a bright bulb from every viewing angle while making the whole lamp glow.
Design
Pipistrello
Look beyond Pipistrello’s winged shade to its telescopic stem, the Olivetti showroom and the different jobs a lamp can do at changing heights.
Design
PK24 Chaise Longue
See how Poul Kjærholm's 1965 PK24 balances one long curved surface on a right-angled steel base, making gravity and friction part of the construction.
Design
PK91 Folding Stool
See how Poul Kjærholm's 1961 PK91 uses an ancient X-frame, crossing steel ribbons, canvas and dovetailed corners to make metal behave like cabinetmaking.
Design
Plia folding chair
The story of Giancarlo Piretti’s Plia folding chair, its concentrated three-disc joint, the 1967 museum record and why a spare chair can deserve a place in the room.