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Argyle
The Scottish architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed for Catherine Cranston’s Argyle Street Tearooms in Glasgow, this unusually high backed chair around 1898-1899. The design for the furniture of the tearooms was the first major private commission of Mackintosh's career. The Argyle chair was shown at the Eighth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession, Austria in 1900 where Mackintosh's highly
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Red & Blue
Lounge chair with frame in black stained beech. Seat (blue) and back (red) in lacquered multiplywood.
In the Red Blue Chair, Rietveld manipulated rectilinear volumes and examined the interaction of vertical and horizontal planes, much as he did in his architecture. Although the chair was originally designed in 1918, its color scheme of primary colors (red, yellow, blue) plus black—so closely
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Wassily Chair
Designs of certain products are most often determined by the advancements in technology and its materials. The well known Wassily Chair which was first created by the designer named Marcel Breuer is specifically one of these is considered to be the first ever chair to attribute a quality bent-steel frame. Despite the fact that, it was first formed in the year 1926, it spotted the foundation of a
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Barcelona Chair
The Barcelona chair was exclusively designed by Mies van der Rohe for the German Pavilion, that country's entry for the International Exposition of 1929, which was hosted by Barcelona, Spain. The campaign and folding chairs of ancient times inspired the chair’s design an icon of modernism.
The frame was initially designed to be bolted together, but was redesigned in 1950 using stainless
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Zig Zag Chair
Using only four elements joined with a system of dovetailing, the Zig Zag chair's visual simplicity belies a relatively complex construction.
This 1934 design is an expression of the "De Stijl" movement and is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Made of natural cherry, Zig Zag can serve as a chair or a side table. Cassina is the exclusive licensed and authorized
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Barrel Chair
Dining chair with curved back, in natural cherrywood, cherrywood stained walnut or stained black. Plastic material seat with polyurethane foam and polyester padding. Seat upholstery in leather or fabric. The "Barrel Chair" by Frank Lloyd Wright was designed in 1937 for Herbert Johnson's house, Wingspread. Made of natural cheerywood with an upholstered leather seat, the chair was a reworking of a
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Coffee Table
The perfect balance—literally—between art and furniture. Sculptor Isamu Noguchi created his distinctive table by joining a curved, wood base with a freeform glass top. The ethereal result does not diminish the practical design—a sturdy and durable table. This marriage of sculptural form and everyday function has made the Noguchi table an understated and beautiful element in homes and offices
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Platner Lounge Collection
In the 1960s, Warren Platner transformed steel wire into a sculptural furniture collection, creating what is now considered a design icon of the modern era. The furniture’s unique, harmonious forms are produced by welding curved vertical steel wire rods to circular frames, producing a moiré effect and capturing the decorative, gentle and graceful quality that Platner sought to achieve. Metal
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Proust
Armchair with hand-carved and hand-painted wooden frame, upholstered with fixed multicolor fabric matching the colors of the structure. This armchair is the re-edition of one of the historic pieces of contemporary Italian design. It is available in two versions: PR/1 light blue/grey/yellow multicolor fabric, PR/2 black/green/red multicolor fabric.
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Feltri
High armchair and low armchair entirely made of thick wool felt. In the lower part, the felt is impregnated with thermosetting resin to guarantee stiffness and resistance. The seat is fixed to the supporting frame by means of hempen strings, which trim also the soft upper edge of the chair. The armchair is completed by mattress in quilted fabric, sewn together with the polyester padding,