50 chairs that changed the world

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Figures in italics indicate picture captions Aalto Alvar 30 36 Chair No.406 36, 36 Paimio lounge chair 30 0.3: Stacking stool Model NO 60 6. 30 32 32 ABS plastic 64 abstraction 18 Alessi 94 aluminium 38. 64 dye-cast 106 1 anthropometric survey 96 AppieiMac Arad Ron  l4 FPE chair (Fantastic Plastic Elastic) Q j 9tJ Rover 8· 8· Armstrong Neil 74 Art Nouveau 10 86 Arts and Crafts " Ashbee C R 12 ashwood 60 B&B Italia 72 Badovici Jean 24 Bauhaus 20.26 bean bags 68, bent-beechwood 14 bentwood 8. 106 Bertoia Harry 48 54 Diamond 46. 48 48. 50 Bey Jurgen 102 Tree Trunk Bench 102, 102 Vacuum Bag furniture 102 Big Brother(reality-TV show) 72 biomorphic structure 96, 98 birch 30 32,36, 90 Bouroullec Ronan and Erwan Samourai' 104 1 Breuer Marcel 20 22 32.36 B3 (Wassily chair) 20 20 B32 6 26.9:

Cabaret Fledermaus Vienna 16. 16 cane 26 60 cantilever chair 22 22, 26, 26. 3· 31 58 0,92 Cappellini 92 cardboard 80 Cassino 60. 68 casters 74. 82 Castiglioni Achille 84 Castiglioni, Achille and Pier 58 Mezzadro 58 58 Sella 58 Celtic craftsmanship 10 Chadwick Donald T and Stumpf William Equa office chair 16 Chiavari chairs Chippendale style tJ Chrysler club chair Colombo Joe 64 Birillo 74,74 Universale 64 64 Visiona project 74 Contemporary style 42, 46 Coray Hans 38 Landi 38 18 7b Courreges Andre Cranston Catherine 10 Danish Modern style 52 Day Lucienne 62 Day Robin 62 Polyp ap 62 62 DDL 66 Blow chair 66, 66 De Pas Jonathan 66 De Stijl movement 18 34 Dixon Tom 92 S-chair 92 92 Doesburg Thea van 34 Duchamp Marcel:

Dutch design movement 34 Eames Charles and Ray 6.4852,546

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DCW (Dining Chair Wood) 40 DKR Wire Mesh chair 4646

Eames lounge chair the 670 56, LAR DAR and RAR 42 42 LCW (Lounge Chair Wood) 40 40,48 Eiffel Tower base 4;> 42 46 46 epoxy-coated seats '8 ergonomics ergonomists 82 82,96 fabrics Fehlbaum Willi Festival of Britain (South Bank London 1951) 44, 44 fibreglass 42. 62 70,74 Finnish Pavilion New York World s Fair (1939) 36 flatpack furniture 8. Fortnum & Mason department store London 32 Gatti Piero Paolini Cesare and Teodoro Franco: Sacco Gehry Frank 80 86 Dancing House Prague 80 Easy Edges 80 Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 80 Wiggle side chair 80 80 geometry 92 German Pavilion Ibero American Exposition (Barcelona 1929) 28 28 Gesamtkunstwerk

Gothic Revival 86 Graham Martha 50 Gray Eileen 24 Transat 24 of Gray Eileen and Badovici, Jean House E-l027 near Monaco 24 Grcic Konstantin Chair-One 106. 1 One series 106 Great Exhibition (1851) 44 Guild of Handicraft 12 Habitat 78 High Modernism 32 lle International 82 Hoffmann Josef 10.12 Chair NO 728 for the Cabaret Fledermaus 16.16 Sitzmaschine 14. 14 inflatable chair 66, 66 injection moulding 62, 62 Ive Jonathan: Apple iMac 96 Jacobsen Arne 70. 80 Ant 52 Model 3107 52, 52, 70 Series 7 group 52 Japanase de sign (1980s)88 japonistestyle Jugendstil 16 Kandinsky Wassily 20 Ka rte 98 Kee Klomp tubular-pipe frame 84, 84 Keeler Christine 52 Kinsman, Rodney 78 F Range chair 78 OMKSTAK 78,78 Klimt Gustav 16 Knoll 28 Kokoschka,Oskar l6 Kroll 48 50

lacquered-metal 92 laminated wood 40 40,80 Le Corbusier 8 24 leather 28 46. i6 68.68, 74,82 Loffler Bertold 16 Lomazzi Paolo Competition (Museum of Modern Art New York 1948) 42 MacDonald Margaret 10 Machine Age 14 24 Mackintosh Charles Rennie 12

High-backed chair for Miss Cranston s Tea Rooms 10.10 Magis 100 Mallet-Stevens Robert 24 marsh straw 92 mass production 6 8,24, 38.566264,6678

Mathsson Bruno 36 MGM Studio workshops 40 Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 22,86

Mies van der Rohe Ludwig and Reich Lilly: Barcelona 28.28

Miller Herman 42 46,48 50. 82,96

Miss Cranston s Tea Rooms Glosgow 10 Mobilia (Danish deSign journal) 70 Modernism Modernist movement 10 24, 32, 36, 52,5286.88,92,94

Mondrian Piet 18 Morley, Lewis 52 Morrison Herbert 44 Morrison Josper 90 Air-chair 100. Plywood chair 90

Moser, Kolomon 12 Armchair for the Purkersdorf Sonatorium 12,12 municipal projects 30 National Gallery London: Sainsbury Wing 86 Noguchi Isamu Rocking stool 50 Nova magazine) 70 Novo Nordisk 5; oak 34 office chairs '6. 76 82 82 Olivetti 76 OMK 78 One Off 84 orthopaedic specialists Paimio Sanatorium Finland 30 30 Ponton Verner 70 Panton 70 70 92, 92 S-chair 70 Paolini Cesare 68 68 Perazzo Alberto 100 Pesce, Goetono 72 Up series 72 Up5 Donna 72 7' Up6 72 physicol therapists 91 plostics 6. 42 46, 64 70, 94 100 plywood 30. 40 46,48,52, 56 70 90.90

Polwony Michael 16 polyester resin 70 polypropylene 62 100 polystyrene 68 polyurethane foam 70 72, 104 Ponti Gi6 60 Superleggera 60 Pop art 64. 78 J2 Purkersdorf Sonotorium

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Race Ernest Antelope 4 62 Springbok rationalism ready-modes ,,,, Reich Lilly Rietveld Gerrit Thomas Red/Blue Chair Zig-Zag Rococo style rosewood Brazilian Rover 200 seat