The Cassina Utrecht Armchair is a stunning design that still looks modern after 70 years. Designed by Gerrit T Rietveld back in 1935, the Utrecht is built around a steel frame with polyurethane foam and polyester padding combining to give the impression of a ‘floating’ chair, even though it’s as solid as any chair on […]

Jasper Morrison is one of today’s most influential industrial designers. Born in London, he is renowned for his ascetically elegant, quietly humorous style and has designed everything from a tray-table to a tram system. Designed in 1999, Low Pad is a lounge chair with or without armrests, body in bent birch plywood, upholstered with multi-density […]

The cp.1 lounge chair from Charles Pollock’s collection was designed in 2012 and produced by Bernhardt Design. This contemporary and sophisticated lounge chair features a brushed or polished stainless steel frame, with quilted seat fabric available in leather, suede, and felt. The cp.1 is designed with a looped stitch that traces the perimeter of the […]

Emeco was originally founded following a collaborative project with Alcoa to develop a seaworthy chair for submarines and warships. The Navy chairs are impervious to corrosion, non magnetic, lightweight and most importantly incredibly strong – attributes of aluminum that we have now grown to appreciate and love. By the end of the 1950s Emeco aluminum […]

Included in the Design Collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ASID and Roscoe Awards. It was 1977 when Mario Bellini developed this brilliant concept… a flexible steel frame covered with a ‘skin’ of saddle leather. The use of zippers completes the piece to create a timeless design that […]

Working extensively across the disciplines of architecture and art direction, Los Angeles-based designer Alexander Purcell Rodrigues opened his own multi-disciplinary design studio in 2012. The studio’s diverse portfolio ranges from furniture design to interior architecture. New launch: An aircraft grade aluminum chair built using new aluminum fabrication methodologies and featuring mathematically-generated ornamental patterns. Called the […]

Designer Tom Dixon launches a flexible new chair for the contract market during the London Design Festival next week. It’s made of glass-reinforced nylon and has a faceted back resembling bunny ears. The one-piece seat and back of Y Chair is made of nylon strengthened with overlapping glass fibres, giving it strength and flexibility. The […]

Steel wires are coaxed into elegant curves in Philippe Bestenheider’s Swirl chair for Varaschin. The frame is suitable for indoors and out; fabric options include the all-weather Piper Fumo, shown. Philippe Bestenheider was born in Sion, Switzerland, in 1971. In 1998 he graduated in architecture from Zürich Polytechnic and has worked for Swiss and US […]

“Ro” means tranquillity in Danish. The name was chosen because it captures the point of the chair in just two letters, thus reflecting the Nordic approach and concept of beauty. Ro is made with great craftsmanship and in the highest sustainable quality. Combined with the sculptural and elegant design, the result is a functional and […]

Like many previous chair projects I have designed the Lightwood Chair is about structure, making use of the unbeatable craftsmanship of Maruni’s wood technology to achieve a light wooden structure. This can be completed with a variety of different solutions for the seat, starting with the lightest, a white mesh, which leaves the structure partially […]