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Louis Majorelle
Look inside Louis Majorelle’s workshop, then follow the branching structure of a dressing table with a sink and the collaboration behind a glass lamp.
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People
Designers, cabinetmakers and the people behind the furniture.
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Louise Brigham
Follow Louise Brigham from Arctic packing crates to a cabinet made from eight herring boxes and the complete interiors pictured in her 1909 Box Furniture.
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Marijn van der Poll
Marijn van der Poll’s work moves from the participatory Do Hit chair to workplace furniture for Ahrend. The profile follows how familiar actions and forms can start new designs.
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Martin Visser
Martin Visser connected furniture design, invited collaborators and contemporary art. His collecting story also includes other members of the family.
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Michael Thonet
Follow Michael Thonet from experiments with glued veneers to solid bentwood, specialised factories and the organisation behind a familiar café chair.
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Mieke Meijer
Mieke Meijer’s material experiments expand through a joint studio into room-scale objects. Collaboration with Roy Letterlé connects furniture, light and architectural space.
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Niels van Eijk
Niels van Eijk’s individually credited Cow Chair and Bobbin Lace Lamp show materials taking new roles. The joint studio account adds a distinct collaborative context.
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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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Piet Hein Eek
Piet Hein Eek’s Eindhoven workplace connects furniture, materials and production. The factory becomes part of the designer’s method.
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Renny Ramakers
Renny Ramakers shows how choosing, commissioning and arranging can start a design conversation, from Droog’s shared presentations to new work with unwanted stock.
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Richard Hutten
Richard Hutten’s 2018 exhibition joined his own designs with chairs he collected. The collection reveals design as an ongoing conversation with objects and people.
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Sabine Marcelis
Sabine Marcelis explores furniture, mirrors and light through material experiments. Museum and manufacturer records show how collaboration turns optical effects into designed objects.
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Sam Maloof
Look beyond the smooth curves of Sam Maloof’s chairs to a workshop of templates and machines, a revealing early commission and a rocking chair made for two.
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Sergio Rodrigues
Discover the studio request behind Sergio Rodrigues’s Mole, and how a wooden frame, leather straps and loose cushions changed Brazilian seating.
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Shiro Kuramata
See Shiro Kuramata through How High the Moon and his curved drawer units: solid furniture whose outline seems unexpectedly uncertain.
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Sori Yanagi
Read Sori Yanagi’s Butterfly stool through its two matching moulded halves, a metal connection and the difference between design, debut and manufacture dates.
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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.
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Tord Boontje
Tord Boontje makes ornament active through precise processes, materials and collaboration. His lights and cut panels give pattern a role in everyday space.
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Wieki Somers
Wieki Somers and Dylan van den Berg’s collaborative studio reconsiders everyday objects through material and use. A museum cloakroom shows how a small ritual can organise a room.
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Willem Hendrik Gispen
Willem Hendrik Gispen’s career connected a metalworking business, individual commissions and serial furniture without reducing them to one style.
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Wim Rietveld
Wim Rietveld brought drawing-office experience to furniture, transport and machinery. Follow a career shaped by production and collaboration.