10 of my favorite all time chairs

I'll start by just mentioning some quotes by Charles and Ray Eames: "The connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details, that give the product its life." "Eventually everything connects-people, ideas, objects,etc ... the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se."

What is a chair? It is a stable, raised surface used to sit on, usually by one person. Chairs are most often supported by four legs...and with that dictionary sentence I'll show you some memorable designers that have been defying that definition from very early years...

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Arm chair) c.1820-1825 painted cast iron with wrought iron rods.

  Thomas Jeckyll (Chair) painted cast iron with Mahoganny seat 1876

Eillen Gray Binbedum Chair1932-1934

Poul Kjaerholm Chair   pk 0, 1952

Eero Saarinen (Tulip) 1955-1956: Knoll adverstisement in 1960


Verner Panton Wire Cone 1960


Kazuhide Takahama ESA, 1968


Verner Panton, Pantower 1968-1969


Gionatan De Pas, Donato D' Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi & Carla Scolari: Blow 1967
*I had one of these when little : )


James Davis & David Walley ( Chair 10 & Chair 9) 1996