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In 1929, Le Corbusier turned the traditional club chair inside out – and created a design icon. The LC3 Chair, also known as Le Grand Confort Armchair, was part of a ground-breaking furniture group that took the lowly chair and sofa frame out of hiding and put it on display as a dramatic and visible component of the design.
Read the Full Details and Buy NowWhy plop your bum in an ordinary chair when you can sit down in a “cushion basket?” That’s exactly how the Le Corbusier Group referred to their LC2 and LC3 furniture lines, which included the iconic Le Petit Confort Armchair.
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20th century modernist design produced more famous chairs than you can count – chairs that are sleek, chairs that are comfortable, chairs that have stood the test of time to become design icons. But of all the chairs created over the past century, none makes quite as much of a statement as Eero Aarnio’s Ball Chair.
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If you think your bum is worthy of a seat fit for a king, you might consider parking it in the Barcelona Chair. This icon of “Modern Classical style,” painstakingly constructed of deeply tufted leather and gleaming stainless steel, was actually designed for royalty – created to provide seating for the King and Queen of Spain at Barcelona’s 1929 World’s fair.
Read the Full Details and Buy NowIt’s comfy, it’s curvy, it’s even downright friendly – just like the Michelin man it was named for. Sitting in Eileen Gray’s Bibendum Chair is kind of like getting a hug that doesn’t stop until you get up. The comfortable, cocoon-y feeling is a direct result of the chair’s construction. Its back and arm rest are fashioned from two semi-circular padded tubes covered in the softest leather. But Gray’s signature seat isn’t just about feeling good, it’s about looking good.
Read the Full Details and Buy NowIt hangs from the ceiling, swaying back and forth like a swing. It’s round, like a ball. It’s big and thick enough to isolate you in your own little world of privacy and comfort. Yet it’s also transparent, allowing you full view of whatever might be going on in the world around you. It’s the Bubble chair – and it’s possibly the most fun a person can have sitting down.
Read the Full Details and Buy NowIn the 1950’s, Charles Eames set out to design a modern answer to the Edwardian English club chair as a birthday gift for his good friend, the Academy Award-winning film director Billy Wilder. The famed designer wasn’t out to change the world. All he wanted was to make his friend a comfortable chair that had “the receptive look of a well used first baseman’s mitt”. In baseball terms, you could say Eames and his wife and partner hit a home run with their creation.
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Designed in 1958 for the Radisson SAS Hotel in Copenhagen, the Egg chair is one of Jacobsen’s most popular designs.
Read the Full Details and Buy NowThe year was 1995. The magazine was British Vogue. On the cover, a naked Kate Moss draped her luscious form across a modern plastic chair that was as sinuous and sleek as the model herself.
Flash back to 1970. This time, the magazine was Nova, and the piece was a tongue-in-cheek photo essay titled “How to undress in front of your husband”. Different model. Different decade. But the futuristic plastic chair featured in the piece was the very same seat Miss Moss would pose upon a quarter-century later.
What sort of chair continues to represent the ultimate in cool modern style decade after decade? None other than the famous Panton Chair.
Read the Full Details and Buy NowLegend has it that Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair was named for Wassily Kandinsky, the 20th Century artist known as the father of abstract painting. In this case, however, the legend is wrong.
While Breuer and Kandinsky were colleagues at the Bauhaus, Breuer’s inspiration came not from his fine artist friend, but from the tubular-steel handlebars of the Adler bicycle he used to get around town. He admired the graceful curves of the metal, and turned to them for inspiration when creating what is believed to be the first tubular steel chair.
Read the Full Details and Buy NowAt Iconic Interiors we are committed to bringing you the cream of modern furniture design. The design of every item we supply has stood the test of time, looking as fresh and contemporary today as the day it was first conceived.
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