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A.R. (Dick) Cordemeijer
A.R. (Dick) Cordemeijer’s career connects Auping’s Cleopatra with industrial furniture at Gispen. Heritage records help keep collaboration, adaptation and name variants precise.
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Designers, cabinetmakers and the people behind the furniture.
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Aino Aalto
Explore Aino Aalto’s work through the open base of Side Table 606, the Savoy interior and the everyday relationships that give a room its character.
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Aldo Bakker
Aldo Bakker gives useful objects forms that invite a slower look. His furniture connects material, recognisable use and specialised making.
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André-Charles Boulle
Look beneath Boulle furniture’s famous surface to its wooden body, reversed marquetry patterns, bronze mounts and a revealing workshop inventory.
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Anna Castelli Ferrieri
Turn over Anna Castelli Ferrieri’s Kartell 4870 chair to understand its ribs, separate legs and carefully planned stacking.
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Benno Premsela
Benno Premsela connected display, interiors and small objects through clear human questions. His mirror and Lotek reveal an economy shaped by the room around them.
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Bertjan Pot
Bertjan Pot’s material curiosity connects workshop experiments with patient product development, manufacturer knowledge and the surprise that remains in finished objects.
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Bodil Kjær
Discover Bodil Kjær’s furniture through the space around a freestanding desk and the weather tests behind an outdoor collection.
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Bruno Mathsson
Follow Bruno Mathsson from an unwelcome hospital chair to curved wooden frames, woven support and houses designed around light and the seated body.
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Carlo Mollino
See how Carlo Mollino’s Arabesco table connects a flowing drawing to layered wood, workshop skill and glass that helps control the shape.
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Carole Baijings
Carole Baijings develops colour through models, materials and production. Her profile connects earlier Scholten & Baijings collaborations with later independently credited furniture.
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Cees Braakman
Cees Braakman connected furniture production knowledge with Pastoe’s adaptable storage, making the factory’s methods part of the customer’s choices.
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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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Chris Kabel
Chris Kabel connects material behaviour with the situation around an object. Mesh Chair and Wood Ring reveal different ways that context can enter furniture design.
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Christien Meindertsma
Christien Meindertsma follows materials through fibres, processes and collaborators, showing how research into origin can influence the next object a material becomes.
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Cini Boeri
Meet Cini Boeri through the solid foam of Bobo and the transparent Ghost chair, co-designed with Tomu Katayanagi for FIAM.
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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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Dirk Vander Kooij
Dirk Vander Kooij develops furniture alongside the tools that make it. Process leaves a visible character in printed chairs and pressed tables.
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Dorothy Liebes
Discover how Dorothy Liebes used reeds, coloured yarn and metallic threads to change the light in a room, and how her woven experiments reached industry.
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Eileen Gray
Meet Eileen Gray through a pivoting lacquer screen and the small decisions about privacy, movement and furniture inside Villa E-1027.
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Émile Gallé
Look at Gallé’s furniture through the Ombellifères cabinet, where wood grain, marquetry and carved growth turn botanical observation into form.
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Enzo Mari
Discover why Enzo Mari offered furniture drawings to readers, how simple boards made structure visible, and what he hoped a homemade chair would teach.
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Ernest Gimson
Follow Ernest Gimson from drawing chairs to learning with Philip Clissett, then passing the work to Edward Gardiner and a wider workshop.
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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.