The most famous chair in design history

The most famous chairs in the design history are: Ant Chair, Pan Dunyi, egg chair in egg chair, Barcelona Chair, Red and Blue Chair, LCW Oak Lounge Chair, Corbusier Lounge Chair, LC2POLTRONA, 836TRE PEZZI.

Someone once asked a home designer that if only one decoration in a room can be changed, the overall atmosphere will be different. What should I choose to change? The designer answered yes-"chair".

As the closest furniture to the human body, chairs spend most of the time with them 24 hours a day. Compared with other furniture, the chair seems to be the object that can give full play to the designer's "ambition".

Today, Moon Design Institute will share with you ten classic chairs in the design history, most of which you may have seen and used, but you may not know the design stories behind them.

1, ant chair

[Keywords:] avant-garde, anti-tradition, charm, freedom and fluency

Designer | arne jacobsen

Date | 1952

Style | Traditional Modernism

Seller | Fritz Hansen

The ant chair designed by arne jacobsen (195 1- 1952) became a turning point in Jacobson's design career. For Danish schools, this is the first time that it completely violates its traditional customs and adds vitality to Danish schools.

Ant chair is one of the earliest series of chairs formed by fixing molded plywood on three chrome-plated tubular steel legs. It is the first furniture in Denmark that can be completely industrialized and mass-manufactured. It has only two parts, the structure is extremely economical, and the materials used are the least.

As far as its shape is concerned, the upper part of the circle, the lower part of the "hip" shape and the narrow middle form a slender waist, hence the name. Although it is now made into four legs for more stability, it was originally designed into three legs.

2. Pan Dunyi

[Keywords:] avant-garde design, sexy and charming

Designer | verner panton

Date | 1958

Country | Denmark

Style | Traditional Modernism

Pan Tong chair is the most popular design in verner panton, and many people know him because of Pan Tong chair. Pan Tong chair is a landmark building in the design industry in the 20th century. Verner panton's design concept was controversial in 1960s, but he persisted and finally designed an all-plastic vibrating chair. This chair is made of a piece of material. The first work came out in the early 1960s and is now in the collection of Vitra Design Museum.

As the world's first S-shaped single cantilever chair, it opened an era.

Can chairs be sexy?

If you are talking about the red Pan Dunyi in verner panton, the answer is a resounding "Yes".

▲ amanda lear strippers on a chair in Pan Dun, 1970, shot by Brian Duffy? Duffy archives

1970, Nova magazine published a photo titled "How to Striptease in front of your husband" taken by photographer Brian Duffy, which tells the story of "a charming striptease" by French singer and model amanda lear. Since then, Pan Tong chair has been equated with the word "sexy".

3. egg chair in egg chair

[Keywords:] unique, inclusive, space

Designer | arne jacobsen

Date | 1958

Country | Denmark

Style | Traditional Modernism

Seller | Fritz Hansen

The oval chair designed by Jacobson in 1958 for the lobby and reception area of the Royal Hotel in Copenhagen is especially suitable for rest and waiting because of its unique shape. Once launched, it has become a sample of Danish furniture design, which is popular all over the world. This oval chair has become a model of Danish furniture design.

Egg chair's unique shape opens up an undisturbed space in public places-especially suitable for lying down to rest or wait, just like at home.

Egg chair's shell is reinforced by glass fiber and polyurethane foam. The chair also has an adjustable inclination that can be adjusted according to the weight of different users. The bottom of the chair is composed of satin-smooth welded steel pipe and four-star injection-molded aluminum, which can be decorated with fabric and leather.

4. Barcelona chairs

[Keywords:] Classic, less is more

Designers | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lily Reich

Date | 1929

Style | Traditional Modernism

The famous "Barcelona Chair" is a classic of modern furniture design and has been collected by many museums. The Barcelona Chair was originally designed by Mies Vandero and Lily Reich for the entrance of the German Pavilion in Barcelona 1929 World Expo. It was first used in Tugenhart Villa, a world heritage site in Brno, and was designed by Mies Van der Rohe.

Mies van der Rohe, designer, 1886 was born in Aachen, Germany. 1928 put forward the famous saying that "less is more". 1929, Mies designed the German Pavilion and the Barcelona Chair of the Barcelona International Expo, becoming the most attractive modern designer in the world at that time.

It is supported by an arc-shaped crossed stainless steel frame, which is very beautiful and practical. Two rectangular leather cushions form a sitting surface (cushion) and a backrest. At that time, the chairs were all hand-polished, with beautiful appearance and practical functions. The design of Barcelona chair caused a sensation at that time, and its status was similar to that of the current concept product. Today, the Barcelona chair has developed into a creative style.

5. Red and blue chairs Red and blue chairs

[Keywords:] exploration, iconic works

Designer |Gerrit Rietveld

Date | 19 17

Style | traditional style

The Red and Blue Chair is one of the most famous representative works of de stijl in the Netherlands. It was designed by furniture designer Ritter Wade under the influence of Vogue magazine.

Ritvid is one of the important artists who expanded his artistic style from plane to three-dimensional space. The red and blue chair he introduced in 19 19 has a radical pure geometric form and unimaginable form.

This chair is all made of wood, and 13 pieces of wood are perpendicular to each other, forming the spatial structure of the chair. Fasten the structure with screws instead of traditional tenon joints to prevent damage to the structure.

This chair was originally painted gray and black. Later, Ritvede strengthened the structure by using pure and bright colors, making it completely undisguised. Re-draw the original color that conforms to Desterbon's aesthetic thought. This will produce a red backrest and a blue cushion.

The handle and chair legs remain black, and a small amount of yellow is used to strengthen the end face. This chair expresses the profound design concept with the simplest modeling language and color.

▲De Stijl

Designers can endow functions with poetic realm, which is an interpretation of industrial aesthetics. Its distinctive modern form finally got rid of the influence of traditional style furniture and became an independent prediction of modernist trend.

Therefore, the red and blue chair, which embodies de stijl's philosophical spirit and aesthetic pursuit, has become a very important milestone in the exploration of modernism. It has had a far-reaching impact on the whole modernist design movement.

6. LCW Oak Lounge Chair

[Keywords:] the best design in the 20th century

Designers | Charles and Ray Eames

Date | 1950

The LCW oak lounge chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames was rated as the best design in the 20th century by Time magazine, which brought a new trend, modern, elegant, concise, with functional aesthetic feeling, met users' needs and convenience, and hoped to bring users a pleasant experience.

Immoos and his wife successfully designed LCW chairs in 1945, both of which were produced by the famous Herman Miller Furniture Company.

Five parts are cut from a composite plate, which is made by die pressing and bending. Each part can be built and combined to form a whole. The seat and backrest of the chair are molded and installed according to ergonomic contours. The black rubber shock-proof seat connects the chair seat, the back of the chair and the tapered legs, further enhancing the natural elasticity of the central support.

7. Corbusier lounge chair

Lc4 recliner from cassina.

[Keywords:] relaxation, perfect balance

Designer | le corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret,

Charlotte Perrin

Date | 1928

This chair was designed in 1928 and gained great fame in 1965. LC4 is an iconic lounge chair: the shape designed for relaxation was created by three designers. The design purpose of the three masters is people-oriented, and the goal is that form and function should serve relaxation and create a perfect balance between geometric shape and ergonomic intention.

1922, le corbusier started his career in the Rue nouvelle, working with his cousin Pierre Jeannerette. They have maintained a deep professional relationship all their lives, enjoying research projects and design standards.

1927 10 They decided to cooperate with a young architect: Charlotte Perriand, who had already started her career in architecture. Their cooperation lasted until 1937, and achieved extremely rich results, especially in the field of furniture design. Their cooperative relationship is of great significance in their achievements and career success culture.

8. Ball chair

[Keywords:] creative, wonderful and interesting

Designer | Errol Aarnio

Date | 1963

Country | Finland

Style | Traditional Modernism

The ball chair, also known as the space chair, was designed by Eero Haguenau in 1963. The ball chair is designed as the simplest spherical shape.

This design brought wonderful results, and soon the chairs were mass-produced. Ball chair is a product between furniture and architecture. Digging out a part of a sphere, or flattening it, can form an independent unit seat, or even a closed space. This is the basic creative technique of Errol Aarnio, and the "ball chair" has become a symbol of the times.

9, liquid crystal diode

[Keywords:] classic, perfect fit

Designer | le corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret,

Charlotte Perrin

Date | 1928

Another timeless classic in design history. Designed in 1928, this model is the prototype of modern chairs. The separation between the inner cushion and the cage frame is a concrete affirmation of the rational method of the chair. A real classic.

CR3 trivalent chrome-plated steel structure or armchair with dark gray, light blue, green, brown, earth tone, ivory white or black enamel steel frame, sofa and footstool for two or three people. The cushion is made of polyurethane sponge and glue-sprayed cotton or polyurethane core down cotton (except footstool). Leather or fabric soft cover. There are also high-tech microfiber fabrics that are only used for chrome-plated steel frames.

10,836 Treppe qi

[Keywords:] Very creative and rigorous,

Warm embrace and high aestheticism.

Designer | Franco Albini

Date | 1959

This chair is a modern embodiment of the traditional armchair. The metal bracket frame consists of three soft packages: a deep seat surface, a semicircular headrest, and an armrest warm hug. Each part has a clear geometric outline, which is in line with Albini's eternal goal of creating the lightest shape.

Franco Albini, a designer, is one of the main figures in rationalism movement, and he is good at architecture, furniture, industry and museum design.

In Franco Albini's works, he always insists on logical consistency, ultimate design purity, excellent ethics and historical integrity. Franco Albini's architectural and design works represent the main ideas of Italian architectural culture since the early 20th century. Many of his creative and rigorous architectural designs perfectly and meticulously reflect a high degree of aestheticism.