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Florence Knoll
Discover how Florence Knoll turned office routines, models and material samples into interiors, down to a cabinet built around a publisher’s newspapers.
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People
Designers, cabinetmakers and the people behind the furniture.
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Floris Wubben
Floris Wubben’s studio designs shaping tools as well as objects, bringing custom ceramic extrusion, material variation and hand finishing into furniture.
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Frans de la Haye
Frans de la Haye’s engineering and industrial-design background gives Auronde a wider context. Appearance, parts and assembly belong to one product question.
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Friso Kramer
Friso Kramer’s ordinary surroundings offer a serious design subject, connecting the Revolt chair with factory knowledge, shared interiors and work beyond furniture.
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Gerard van den Berg
Gerard van den Berg connects technical furniture knowledge with expressive upholstered forms. Charly and Hidde show different ways to shape a soft seat.
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Gerrit Rietveld
Explore the Rietveld Schröder House through movable partitions, shared authorship and the everyday decisions of the family who lived there.
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Gijs Bakker
Gijs Bakker’s jewellery and furniture can be read together through material and the body. His Strip Chair makes that connection visible at a larger scale.
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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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Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius studies how colours and materials behave together. Her experiments connect industrial repetition with differences in surface and light.
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Ineke Hans
Ineke Hans’s Smallroom seating and Drawer Table show a furniture practice attentive to changing activities, from working and reading to making room to eat.
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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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Jeroen Verhoeven
Jeroen Verhoeven’s furniture gives creative collaboration a visible form, from the people in Lectori Salutem’s curves to a wider practice connecting design and making.
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Jeroen Wand
Jeroen Wand’s paper, veneer and aluminium work traces a method moving between materials. A 2023 interview adds the people and daily making behind that exchange.
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Joaquim Tenreiro
Discover how Joaquim Tenreiro used contrasting woods and curved forms in the Three-legged Chair, then carried rhythm into his later reliefs.
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John Hemmings
Read John Hemmings through his joinery, an 1825 letter and a lost writing desk, recognising the skilled labour behind famous furnished rooms.
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Jólan van der Wiel
Jólan van der Wiel designs tools and experiments that make natural forces visible. Furniture, water-related work and magnetic ceramics reveal a broader working method.
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Joris Laarman
Joris Laarman’s practice brings programmers, engineers and craftspeople into furniture making. A Pixel chair shows how digital cutting and hand finishing meet.
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Jurgen Bey
Jurgen Bey finds furniture ideas in existing surroundings and social situations. A trunk or a chair’s extended sides can change how a place is read.
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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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Kho Liang Ie
Kho Liang Ie moved between chairs, interiors and design direction, connecting a person’s immediate surroundings with the larger arrangement and the work of collaborators.
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Kiki van Eijk
Kiki van Eijk carries the character of a sketch across wood, clay and textiles, working with specialist workshops while keeping the hand close to the result.
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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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Lina Bo Bardi
Explore Lina Bo Bardi through three kinds of seating: a folding auditorium chair, the movable Bowl and the firm wooden seats of SESC Pompéia.