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The Origin of Plastic Furniture

On: February 26, 2023

Tagged: armchair, armchairs, chairs, Furniture, Furniture Design, plastic

The Origin of Plastic Furniture – most household items were not made of plastic until the 1920s and 1930s. LEARN MORERead More →

Artifort Dutch furniture manufacturer

On: July 21, 2022

Tagged: armchair, Design firm, Designer, designs, dutch design 🇳🇱, manufacturer, modern, netherlands, style, tables

Artifort used freelance designers, including Kho Liang Le and Pierre Paulin. It produced chairs, settees, and tables. It first used plastics in Paulin’s 1965 Chair 582 in tensioned rubber and latex foam and his 1965-66 Armchair 303 in polyester fibreglass. It produced Paulin’s 1953 Chair 157 in polyester, ABS, and elastomers and 1967 F577 chair. Read More →

Eames chair is 66 years old

On: June 30, 2022

Tagged: armchair, Chair, Furniture

B.Billy Wilder, the filmmaker, got the first one. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India alsoRead More →

Francis Jourdain (1876 – 1958) – painter, interior designer, ceramicist

On: June 20, 2022

Tagged: armchair, Chair, chairs, French, French Design, Furniture, Furniture designer, Paris

Francis Jourdain (1876 – 1958), the son of architect Frantz Jourdain, was born on November 2, 1876. His father created the Salon d’Automne collection. He benefited from his parents’ friendships with prominent intellectuals (Émile Zola, Alphonse Daudet) and artists of the time (the circle of Alexandre Charpentier). Read More →

Alberto Rosselli (1921-76) Italian architect and industrial designer

On: February 4, 2022

Tagged: Architect, Architecture, armchair, Design, designs, Furniture, Industrial Designer, international, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, Italian 🇮🇹, modern, Palermo, sofa

Alberto Rosselli (1921-76) Italian architect and industrial designer. He was born in Palermo. He was professionally active in Milan. Read More →

Tulip Armchair by Eero Saarinen (1957)

On: December 29, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Chair, chairs, Design, design classic, design object, design objects, Furniture, Furniture Design

Saarinen faced the problem of trying to treat the leg structurally and visually as part of the reinforced-plastic moulded seat shell with the help of a research team from the Knoll firm led by Donald Petit. This issue had plagued him since he and Charles Eames conducted their first experiments with moulded seat shells.Read More →

Ro Chair designed by Jamie Hayon

On: December 5, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Chair, Fritz Hansen, Furniture designer

The pressure-cast aluminium legs and the transition to the shell followed the same process to create an elegant and natural unit that ensures that from all angles, Ro is beautiful and elegant. To make the chair more colourful and tactile, a mixture of different textiles were also used in addition to the shell’s form – one for the shell and one for the cushions.Read More →

Thomas Molesworth (1890 – 1977) an American furniture designer

On: December 1, 2021

Tagged: American design 🇺🇸, American designers 🇺🇸, American 🇺🇸, armchair, Chair, chairs, Furniture, Furniture designer

Molesworth ranch style furniture has inspired contemporary Western furniture designers such as Jim Covert, Jeff Morris and Marc Tagesger with its large brass pads, Native American motifs and wildfire imagery.Read More →

Rocking Armchair Rod (RAR) by Ray Eames

On: November 23, 2021

Tagged: armchair, armchairs, Chair, fibreglass, Furniture, Furniture Design, Furniture designer, metal, rocking chair, wood

The RAR was designed by Charles and Ray Eames to be manufactured of metal before being sprayed with neoprene (a synthetic rubber) to make it more comfortable. However, by the time the chair could be manufactured, Herman Miller had developed the technique to build the seat out of polyester bonded with fibreglass strands. Read More →

Konstantin Achkov (b.1973) and ‘tensegrity’ designed furniture

On: November 20, 2021

Tagged: armchair, bulgarian design, Bulgarian Designer, Chair, chairs, Furniture, Furniture Design, Furniture designer

The form of the chairs is influenced by traditional frame construction, like that of the Eiffel tower. Specific sides form the base, where every element of the furniture puzzle is assembled only using puzzle joints without glue, nails, screws or bolts.Read More →

Patricia Urquiola is a Spanish architect and designer

On: November 12, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Cassina, couch, Design, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, milan, spain, Spanish design | Design Topic, Spanish designer/s | Design Topic, Spanish furniture | Design Topic

Patricia Urquiola is a Spanish architect based in Milan. She distinguishes herself by her original designs of items and furniture for the finest and most significant international companies. She created the Maia series, one of her most typical works for Kettal, the designer of some of the most emblematic pieces of today’s selection. AD Design Award 2008 for architecture.Read More →

Gaetano Pesce (b.1939 ) Italian architect, designer and sculptor

On: November 9, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Chair, chairs, Furniture, Furniture designer, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, Italian 🇮🇹, Italian furniture 🇮🇹, italy, Paris

He established an office in Padua, where he became a founding member of Gruppo N in 1959. He experimented with programmed art and collaborated with Gruppo Zero in Germany, Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel in Paris (then known as Motus), and Gruppo T in Milan. Read More →

The Atra Armchair Continues the Indoor/Outdoor Furniture Trend

On: October 2, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Chair, design object, Furniture, Furniture Design

Atra has ergonomic sitting with ventilated perforated back and side regions, as well as a wide, curved design. The armchairs are stackable and the seat is easy to clean. The materials utilised to create Atra – 100 percent recyclable polypropylene and fibreglass – are weather-resistant.Read More →

Leolux LX Armchair of High Comfort

On: September 30, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Chair, chairs, Design, Furniture, Furniture designer, netherlands

and comfortable armchair. The walnut or oak wooden plywood shell, upholstered in fabric or leather, is the focal point. Customization is also possible with the aluminium swivel base. For that ultimate touch, this can be completed in polished aluminium or an Epoxy colour.Read More →

Armchair (1949) designed by Hans J. Wegner

On: July 29, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Chair, chairs, Danish Design, danish designers 🇩🇰, Denmark

He simplified the chair’s structure so that the sculpted backrest and arms form one continuous element. The turned legs rigidly support the deep seat rail and top piece without the need for stretchers, combining an expressive form that draws on Chinese precedents with natural materials and a rationally conceived design destined for the most exacting factory manufacture.Read More →

How High the Moon Armchair by Shiro Kuramata

How High the Moon armchair (1986) by Shiro Kuramata

On: July 28, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Chair, Japanese, Japanese Design, Japanese Designer 🇯🇵, Japanese furniture

Shiro Kuramata’s inventive transformations of everyday industrial materials, including steel mesh, terrazzo, corrugated aluminium, and steel cables, pushed material technology to new design limits. Read More >Read More →

Marco Zanuso Sr. (1916 – 2001) Italian architect and designer

On: June 28, 2021

Tagged: Architect, armchair, Chair, Furniture, Furniture Design, Furniture designer, gold medal, Italian Design 🇮🇹, Italian Designers 🇮🇹, Italian furniture 🇮🇹, milan, milano

Marco Zanuso Sr. was an Italian architect and designer. He was born in Milan. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, to 1939. Read More →

Bruno Pollack (1902 – 1985) – Austrian furniture designer

On: April 5, 2021

Tagged: armchair, austrian, austrian design, Austrian Designer 🇦🇹, Chair, chairs

Pollack invented a tubular steel stacking chair, model RP7, which was manufactured from c1932 and revolutionised auditorium seating with its stacking concept. Cox, a British furniture maker, was embroiled in a legal battle with rival Pel in 1934 over the Rp6 stacking chair, which Pel had bought the rights from Pollack.Read More →

Naoto Fukasawa’s Latest Chair Dials Into Our Unconscious Behavior

On: March 1, 2021

Tagged: armchair, Chair, chairs, Furniture, Furniture designer

It’s no coincidence that modern design history is told by chairs rather than cars, typefaces, or home appliances. So many extraordinary chairs were borne from innovative use of materials, a microcosm of objets d’art that take us through a series of key technological episodes in the evolution of design.Read More →

Small space ideas photo of a living room

9 ways to make your lounge room look bigger

On: October 6, 2020

Tagged: apartment, Architecture, armchair, background, bright, Chair, collection, color, concept, contemporary, couch, decor, decoration, Design, flat, floor, Furniture, home, house, illustration, interior, Lamp, living, living room, lounge, luxury, modern, room, seat, small spaces, sofa, style, stylish, symbol, Table, wall, white

A small space doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be cramped. Maybe there is not enough light; furniture doesn’t sit well, the layout isn’t right? How do you make a small room feel more spacious? With clever use of colour, furniture placing, space planning and lighting, your small space can feel as spacious as you need it to bRead More →

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