https://estateanddesign.com/ The curated editorial selection of remarkable pieces from Estate & Design. en https://estateanddesign.com/objects/ch24-wishbone-chair/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/ch24-wishbone-chair/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Designed by Hans J. Wegner in 1949 and in continuous production since 1950, the CH24 remains the defining Danish dining chair: a steam-bent backrest, a hand-woven paper cord seat and more than one hundred manufacturing steps, most of them by hand. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/arco-floor-lamp/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/arco-floor-lamp/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 The Castiglioni brothers designed the Arco in 1962 around a simple problem: how to bring overhead light to a table without touching the ceiling. Their answer was a two-metre arc of stainless steel balanced by a block of Carrara marble heavy enough to hold it steady. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/ph-artichoke-pendant/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/ph-artichoke-pendant/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Poul Henningsen designed the Artichoke in 1958 for the Langelinie Pavillonen restaurant in Copenhagen, where the original still hangs. Seventy-two leaves on twelve tiers shield the light source completely, so the room receives only reflected, glare-free light. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/tolomeo-tavolo/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/tolomeo-tavolo/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina designed the Tolomeo in 1987, and its spring-balanced arm remains the benchmark every task light is measured against. Aluminium arms, polished die-cast joints and stainless tension cables hold the shade exactly where it is put. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/original-1227-desk-lamp/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/original-1227-desk-lamp/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Designed by the automotive engineer George Carwardine in 1935, the 1227 is the original Anglepoise: a desk lamp balanced by constant-tension springs, so the shade stays exactly where it is put. It has been in production, in evolving forms, for ninety years. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/ph-5-pendant/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/ph-5-pendant/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Poul Henningsen designed the PH 5 in 1958 as the culmination of three decades of research into glare-free light. Its three layered shades, purple struts, and red and blue anti-glare rings shape the light so the bulb is never visible from any seated angle. It is the most considered pendant in the Danish canon. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/womb-chair/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/womb-chair/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Eero Saarinen designed the Womb chair in 1948, one of his first designs for Knoll. The story, as told by the company, begins with Florence Knoll asking for a chair she could curl up in; Saarinen answered with a generous upholstered shell on a slim tubular steel base, a chair shaped for lounging rather than sitting upright. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/barcelona-chair/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/barcelona-chair/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Barcelona chair for the German Pavilion at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, conceived as seating fit for the King and Queen of Spain. Mies, a friend and mentor to Florence Knoll, granted Knoll the production rights in 1953, and the company has built the chair to his standards ever since. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/lc4-chaise-longue/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/lc4-chaise-longue/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Designed in 1928 by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1929, the LC4 is the archetype of the modern chaise longue. The recliner, modelled on the natural contours of the body, slides on its tubular steel base to find the perfect angle, which is why it is often called the 'relaxation machine'. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/egg-chair/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/egg-chair/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Arne Jacobsen designed the Egg in 1958 for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, the hotel he designed down to the cutlery. Its enveloping shell creates, in Fritz Hansen's phrase, 'a space within the space': a private room inside a public one, softening the hard lines of the modern interior. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/panton-chair/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/panton-chair/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Verner Panton designed the Panton chair in 1960: the first chair to be moulded from a single piece of plastic. Its cantilevered S-curve, made possible by the new material, turned a stackable dining chair into a piece of sculpture, and it has been in production with Vitra ever since. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/noguchi-coffee-table/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/noguchi-coffee-table/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Isamu Noguchi designed his coffee table in 1944, and called it his best furniture design. A heavy plate glass top rests on two identical wooden elements set at right angles, a composition as close to his biomorphic sculpture of the period as to furniture. Vitra produces it in Europe; Herman Miller in the Americas. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/eames-lounge-chair-670/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/eames-lounge-chair-670/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Introduced by Herman Miller in 1956, the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman began with Charles Eames's wish for a chair with 'the warm receptive look of a well-used first baseman's mitt.' Seven-ply veneer shells, individually upholstered cushions and die-cast aluminium bases are still assembled by hand, and the set remains, in Herman Miller's phrase, 'a special refuge from the strains of modern living.' https://estateanddesign.com/objects/tulip-armchair/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/tulip-armchair/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Eero Saarinen designed the Pedestal collection in 1956 around a single idea: to eliminate what he called 'the slum of legs' underneath tables and chairs. The Tulip armchair reduces the chair to one cast-aluminium stem and a moulded seat shell, a swivelling seat that has become a symbol of mid-century modern design. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/stool-60/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/stool-60/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Alvar Aalto designed the Stool 60 in 1933 around his bentwood L-leg, which he called the 'little sister of the architectural column.' Three legs of bent birch carry a round seat; the stool stacks, works as a side table or a display surface, and has been made in Finland by Artek, the company Aalto founded with his wife Aino in 1935, ever since. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/bourgie-table-lamp/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/bourgie-table-lamp/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Ferruccio Laviani designed the Bourgie for Kartell in 2004, uniting, in the company's words, 'classicism, wealth and tradition with technological innovation.' A baroque-style base of three interlocking decorated elements carries a large pleated polycarbonate shade; a special hanging system gives three heights, 68, 73 and 78 centimetres. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/eclisse-table-lamp/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/eclisse-table-lamp/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Vico Magistretti designed the Eclisse in 1965, and in 1967 it won the Compasso d'Oro for what the jury called the double quality of high design value and mass diffusion. A rotating inner shade 'eclipses' the light source, so the user shapes the light from direct to diffused with an elementary gesture. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/series-7-chair/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/series-7-chair/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Arne Jacobsen designed the Series 7 in 1955, and it remains the most popular design in Fritz Hansen's collection. The shell is nine layers of pressure-moulded veneer, shaped for strength and flexibility despite its slender form; slim steel-tube legs extend just past the seat edge so the chairs stack and sit in rows. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/aalto-vase/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/aalto-vase/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Alvar Aalto designed the vase for the Karhula-Iittala glass competition in 1936; shown at the Paris World Fair in 1937, its fluid, irregular form challenged everything European glass design then stood for. Each piece is still mouth-blown in Finland. The name 'Savoy' came later, from the Helsinki restaurant Aalto and his wife Aino designed in 1937. https://estateanddesign.com/objects/swan-chair/ https://estateanddesign.com/objects/swan-chair/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Arne Jacobsen designed the Swan in 1958 for the lobby and lounge areas of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen, alongside the Egg. The chair contains no straight lines: a moulded shell on a star-shaped swivel base, organic and soft despite its strong architectural appeal.