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Charlotte Perriand
Understand how Charlotte Perriand connected furniture with everyday and collective living through one documented 1952 commission produced with Ateliers Jean Prouvé.
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People
Designers, cabinetmakers and the people behind the furniture.
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Clara Porset
A furnishing proposal for farming families reveals how Clara Porset and Xavier Guerrero used pine, ixtle and jute—and why the drawing needed both their names.
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Finn Juhl
Enter Finn Juhl's house, exhibitions and UN chamber to see how furniture, art, architecture, colour and human use became one connected design problem.
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Grete Jalk
Meet Grete Jalk beyond the GJ Chair: at the workbench, in Mobilia's editorial room, inside travelling exhibitions and across four volumes of furniture history.
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Hans J. Wegner
Follow Hans J. Wegner from a cabinetmaker's apprenticeship in Tønder through workshops, manufacturers and a lifetime of chair-making questions.
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Jean Prouvé
Meet Jean Prouvé through three scales of work: the unequal legs of the Standard Chair, a wall-mounted lamp and a demountable house.
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Kaare Klint
Explore how Kaare Klint connected body and room measurements, historical furniture, material, craftsmanship and teaching—and what that method tells a collector.
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Lilly Reich
Inside Lilly Reich and Mies van der Rohe’s Velvet and Silk Café, cloth displays itself while shaping a room. A woven chair brings that material thinking to the body.
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Niels Vodder
Use Guild records and museum objects to understand how cabinetmaker Niels Vodder turned Finn Juhl's demanding furniture ideas into small-series physical work.
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Thomas Day
Thomas Day’s furniture leads into the history of a free Black cabinetmaker, his family’s legal restrictions and the enslaved people who worked in his business.