Classical furniture design history

Most of the still available and copied in our time classical furniture items, is inextricably linked with the history of design, derived from the classic modern era (from the second half of the nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries). Titles and names, such as "Bauhaus" and Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe connoisseurs of classical design and aspirate. Such architects and architectural schools at that time set out to develop projects not only buildings, but also the situation for them, that is, the furniture.

Couch LC 4 by Le Corbusier chair "Barcelona" by Mies baths der Rohe or "Ant chairs" by Arne Jacobsen appeared during that wonderful era. And even if today samples of such furniture should be sought primarily in the homes of wealthy people, the original idea was quite different: the designers have developed their projects specifically for the mass market at affordable prices

Chair "Zigzag" <./h2>

It was widely known at that time acquired the chairs "Zigzag" Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld designed by Wilhelm Wagenfeld lamp in the style of "Bauhaus" lounge chair by Charles Eames table E.1027 and day bed Eileen Gray or "Long B55 chair" by Marcel Breuer.

Chairs Thonet

From the era of classical modernity occur and the famous "Chairs for coffee" 4 "(1849) and" 14 "(now -" 214 ", 1859), made of bent wood German-Austrian cabinetmaker Michael Thonet . Such chairs for many decades to win the minds and souls of people all over the world, "number four" Especially, which today is considered a classic chair Viennese coffeehouse But if the originals of these chairs Thonet -.. is the greatest museum piece, the number of issued for the time of copies and variants such furniture was indeed a record.

Chesterfield credit layer

More older examples of classic design is the famous Chesterfield leather armchairs, which was first mentioned in 1773. But the furniture in even earlier styles, for example, from the Rococo or. even baroque lovers willing to buy only when they have been preserved in excellent condition and are an exact copy, which is very difficult to distinguish from the furniture old. and since this furniture was made at the dawn of industrial production, as a rule, it is here only to go on individual copies.

M ebel by Verner Panton

It is interesting, but in the period of modern history is also designed furniture designs that were pretty fast numbered among the classics in this regard, it is worth recalling, for example, lounge. -kresla "Cone chair" (1958), as well as built on the cantilever chair "Cantilever chair" (1960) made of plastic by Verner Panton "chair-ball" (ball chair, 1963) by Eero Aarnio or chair "Costes" (1982) by Philippe Starck.

furniture from Rolf Benz

Modern classics considered and sofas from Rolf Benz, as, indeed, and sofas, chairs and ottomans designed by different designers for the French furniturebrand Ligne Roset, for example," the Garden chair "(Outdoor chair, 2002) of the Paris design studio Ronan&Erwan Bouroullec