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Minimalist design - ...
Not a chair you would find in a normal home but an example of 90's minimal design. Maarten Van Severen reduced the elements of his furniture to the bare minimum. This chair is simply a ribbon of bent aluminium sheet joined under the seat by rubber spacers, Looked from the side it almost disappears l...
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'Little Heavy Chair'...
An example of high design transformed into an item for the mass market. The metal sculptured chair was from a limited edition by designer Ron Arad;s studio and not intended for the mass market. The indentations of the rubber hammer used to beat it out were retained to show it was hand made. Highly p...
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Chair and Table-Ches...
This chair was designed in the late 1980's by Jasper Morrison demonstrating a spirit of modesty and functionalism to design, which became very influential. The chair is simple and elegant using balanced geometric and rectilinear elements with a freehand curve of the back chair legs. The table che...
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Table-Chest
This chair was designed in the late 1980's by Jasper Morrison demonstrating a spirit of modesty and functionalism to design, which became very influential. The chair is simple and elegant using balanced geometric and rectilinear elements with a freehand curve of the back chair legs. The table che...
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Armchair: Noah
Designed by Nigel Coates, this chair was manufactured by SPC Ltd in London in 1988 for a restaurant in Japan. It was based on a maker of traditional Windsor chairs in High Wycombe. The sandblasted distressing is meant to evoke a 'rustic honesty', like a harvester's scythe of ash and steel. Picture t...
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Column of Drawers
This column was designed and made by John Makepeace in Great Britain in 1978 of plied birch and coloured acrylic, cantilevered from a stainless steel column. It combines contemporary forms with utilitarian aims with traditional skills. He thought that artistic form and content should not override us...
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Chair: Paris
This chair was designed by Andre Dubreuil in London in 1988. It is of Waxed sheet steel with acetylene torch decoration. His furniture is deliberately ornamental in character in response to what he considered to be the 'minimal and boring' nature of most modern furniture. No two Paris chairs were al...
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Glass Chair
Glass has many uses, here is one of the more unusual. The chair is by Danny Lane and is both a piece of furniture ans a freestanding sculpture, with the function secondary to the sculpture. It was made in 1988 of sheet glass and steel. The aim was to challenge notions of the chair as primarily utili...
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Chest of draws in ir...
Made in 1989 of stained and lacquered ash veneers the cabinet was designed by Shiro Kuramata and typifies the outlook of many contemporary Japanese designers. The minimal aspect comes from both traditional Japanese design and Western Modernism. Its unorthodox shape encourages its perception as a scu...
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Drop-front writing d...
This cabinet was designed by Norbert Bergof, Michael Lande and Wolfgang Rang in 1985-6. It was manufactured by Dranert Collection Immenstaad, Germany using Bird's eye maple, ebony, bruyere, burl, solid maple, bubingo, ivory, horn, glass, gold leaf, lasa and acosta marble and Bahia blue granite.
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Table -Neoclassicism...
This small table is in the neoclassic style popular from 1760-1790. It was the leading style at this time. Designers looked at the style of ancient art and literature for inspiration.
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Chippendale Chair 17...
This was the most copied of all Chippendale designs. Many versions were made by furniture makers in varying quality. The pattern was produced for more than 30 years. The chair is in carved mahogany.
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Work and Games Table...
Regency design was characterised by small movable pieces of furniture. The pattern for this table was published in 1823. It has leafy acanthus scrolls and formalised flower motifs. These were standard Classical motifs. The table was Rosewood, with mounts and stringing lines of brass.
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Bookcase 1806
This bookcase was made for Carlton House London, the home of the Prince Regent, by the firm of William Marsh and Thomas Tatham. It is in a classical design using burr yew veneer, mahogany and pine, inlaid with ebony. It has a marble top, bronze busts and gilt bronze mounts. The silk panels are repla...
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Bureau Bookcase 1808...
This bookcase illustrates the mixing of styles that was common in Regency objects. The overall form is classical but it has Gothic style bars on the cabinet windows and the corners of the cabinets carry mounts of Egyptian type figures.
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Couch 1805
This couch was commissioned by a wealthy Welshman from Gillow and Co, a prominent furniture manufacturer. It is of Beechwood, carved and guilded, with replacement upholstery.
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