This classic tap is designed by Barber Wilsons This classic tap is found in homes up and down the country. It even has a place in at least one of the Royal Palaces, as the company, which was founded in…
Design Classics #45: Barber Wilsons Taps
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Design Classics #44: Safari Chair
This chair was inspired by a picture in a travel guide to Africa and has been a design classic since it first appeared in 1933. Kaare Klint was inspired by a British Officer’s chair he had seen in a travel…
Design Classics #43: Artek Stool
Created in 1993 by the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto, this quintessentially functional piece of furniture celebrates its 80th anniversary this year. This simple stool, which has become a design classic, is recognisable by its distinctive bent legs and round seat.…
Design Classics #42: Ernest Race BA3 Chair
Ernest Race was one of Britain’s most successful and inventive furniture designers. This chair was one of his first productions for his company Race Furniture and was first exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s morale-boosting exhibition ‘Britain Can Make It’…
Design Classics #41: Eileen Gray Side Table E1027
Named after Eileen Gray’s summer house in Maison en Bord de Mer at Roquebrune Cap Martin, which she built for herself and her collaborator Jean Badovici, the name E1027 is in code. E is for Eileen, 10 for Jean (J is the…
Design Classics #40: Florence Knoll Sofa
As a pioneer of the Knoll Planning Unit, Florence Knoll created what she modestly referred to as the “fill-in pieces that no one else wants to do.” She referred to her own line of lounge seating as the equivalent of “meat and potatoes,” adding, “I…
Design Classics: #39: Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair
So today’s question is: What is the link between that chair and this bicycle? The answer is that Marcel Breuer was a keen cyclist. He had an Adler bicycle which he particularly admired for its functional design. An apprentice at…
Design Classics #38: Diamond Chair
Harry Bertoia did not take a conventional route into the world of furniture design. Unlike many of his contemporaries who trained first as architects (Arne Jacobsen and Eero Saarinen to name but two) Bertoia had a metal workshop and…
Design Classics #37: Arne Jacobsen’s Ant Chair
Designed in 1952, the Ant Chair was first produced with three legs and was not an instant hit. It was only in 1980 that a fourth leg was added and a variety of finishes and colours were included in the…
Design Classics #36: The Eames Eiffel Chair
Charles and Ray Eames were responsible for some of the most iconic designs of the 20th century; that lounge chair and ottoman, those ball coat hangers you see everywhere and the Eiffel chair as well as several children’s toys. The…