The concept of the iconic Table tube d’avion
lies in the distinction between the support piece and the piece being
supported; in other words, between the base and the top.
The independence of the two parts of this table
is highlighted by the four..
The rigorous design of this
chair is a perfect exemplar of Frank Lloyd Wright’s design ethos. This can be
seen in the tall backs and the strong uprights, the use of wood, typical of the
furniture he designed for his prairie houses. This chair was ..
An extremely functional dining
chair, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1907 for the Avery Coonley House, one
of the finest examples of his prairie style home. Wright uses his signature
uprights for this accomplished combination of shape and mater..
These low square tables consist
of six pieces: two horizontals at top and bottom, into which are slotted four
verticals, in the interior of which is a surface onto which objects can be
placed. This composition creates a dynamic where the horizonta..
This table was originally
conceived as a sideboard for the dining room of Boynton Hall in Rochester, New
York, which Frank Lloyd Wright designed in 1908. The architect wanted to create
a piece with strong horizontal and vertical lines, a common fe..
One of the versions of
the iconic model dated 1918.The structure is in
black-stained beechwood with white contrasting parts.Seat and back in green
lacquered multiplywood.The armchair can have a
single seat and backrest cushion in fabric or leathe..
A sculptural seat with a pure
and rationalist form, this chair became an authentic Manifesto for
Neoplasticism, embraced by the Dutch De Stijl movement in 1917. An outlook
shared by Piet Mondrian, whose objective was to seek out the essential natu..
Represents, with the Red and
Blue, the essence of the new spatial concept of neoplasticism. A key benchmark
in the establishment of the Modern style, this sideboard, designed in 1919, was
originally used in the model home designed by J.P Oud for S..
Cassina offers a new reinterpretation of the iconic model dated
1935: it is a new version, with reduced sizes to be ergonomically suited to
children. Small armchair with main frame, seat and backrest in poplar
plywood. Massive poplar wood arm..
Gerrit
T. Rietveld came up with the design for the Utrecht armchair in 1935 while
working for the Metz & Co. department store in Amsterdam, where his brief
was to make a chair for serial production. Taking market needs into account,
while pri..
The artist Bertjan Pot has
designed a fabric in Jacquard variants specifi cally for the Utrecht armchair
to offer a contemporary reworking of this icon from 1935 designed by Gerrit T.
Rietveld. The architecture of the armchair is reflected in the ..