- Designed By - Philppe Starck
- When - 1999
- Made From - Polypropylene
- Manufactured By - Driade
- More Info - This
is a simple stacking armchair and can stack up to 14 high. This chair is
suitable for both indoor and outdoor use and comes in a variety of colours.
Cotton covers and seat cushions for the chair are available as well. There is
also a matching table: the Toy Table.
- Designed By - Grete Jalk
- When - 1963
- Made From - Laminated
plywood
- Manufactured by - Lange Production
- More Info - This
chair is regarded as the best and is certainly the most famous piece by Grete Jalk. It won first prize
in a competition organized by the British newspaper Daily Mail. It is a very
sculptural chair and has a very interesting shape. It is made form only two
pieces of moulded plywood and is very complex to produce. He was inspired by
the bent plywood chairs by Alvar Alto and Charles
Eames but with this chair he decided to be even more adventurous with this
method of making. The chair is available in teak, Oregon pine and black stained
ash wood. A was designed with a matching table: the GJ Nesting Table.
- Designed By - Antonio Bonet, Jorge Ferrari Hardoy and Juan Kurchan
- When -
1938
- Made From - Painted
tubular steel and canvas
- Manufactured By - Artek, then Knoll since
1947
- More Info - This
chair is also known as the BFK Chair (after the designers last names), Sling
Chair or Hardoy Chair. It is in the
collection at MoMA. It is very
lightweight and suitable for use inside and out. The seat is fitted onto the
frame using pockets and can easily be taken off
to be washed or replaced. It is available with a canvas or leather seat.
Canvas seats are available in 12 colours.
- Designed By - Arne Jacobsen
- When - 1952
- Made From - Steel
pipe and laminated wood
- Manufactured By - Fritz Hansen
- More Info - This
was Jacobsen's first stacking chair and one of his best-known designs. It is available in either natural wood veneer
or colours in lacquer or lazur. At first most
people were sceptical about it because it only had three legs and no arms.
Despite it being very minimal it is actually very comfortable. It was
originally designed for use in the canteen of the Danish pharmaceutical firm
Novo Nordisk. It was designed to be
light, stable and easy to stack up. The Ant Chair can refer to model 3100 which
has three legs, or model 3101 which has four, that was added in 1980.
- Designed
By - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich
- When
- 1929
- Made
From - Flat steel bars and leather
- Manufactured
By - Knoll
- More
Info - This chair, sometimes
referred to as the Pavilion chair, was originally designed to provide seating
for the King and Queen of Spain at Barcelona’s 1929 World’s fair. Today it is an iconic luxury piece of
furniture and is a must have piece for wealthy architects, designers and
important buildings and is most often seen in the lobbies of large
multinationals. It even got the Museum of Modern Art Award in 1977. It has an
X-frame made from two flat steel bars which was inspired by Ancient Egyptian
thrones. The original upholstery was white, black and tan tufted leather. There
is a matching ottoman and sofa versions of it have recently been made.
