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Favorite Chairs

Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item. -Charles Pollock
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Standard Chair (1934)The French metalworker, furniture designer, and architect helped revolutionize the use of steel in architecture and prefab housing. Perhaps his most iconic piece of furniture, the Standard, is anything but—a delicate fusion of engineering and design skill. The curved steel legs, larger in the back due to Prouvé’s observation that the rear supports the brunt of a person’s weight, contrast well with two simple pieces of bent oak. Image courtesy Galerie Patrick Seguin

Standard Chair (1934)

The French metalworker, furniture designer, and architect helped revolutionize the use of steel in architecture and prefab housing. Perhaps his most iconic piece of furniture, the Standard, is anything but—a delicate fusion of engineering and design skill. The curved steel legs, larger in the back due to Prouvé’s observation that the rear supports the brunt of a person’s weight, contrast well with two simple pieces of bent oak.

Image courtesy Galerie Patrick Seguin

Deck Chair by BDDW

Deck Chair by BDDW


Marcel Wanders’s Knotted chair.

Marcel Wanders’s Knotted chair.

Jasper Morrison's Low Pad chair

Jasper Morrison's Low Pad chair


An early-edition Egg Chair, circa 1970, with original leather. By Arne Jacobsen.

An early-edition Egg Chair, circa 1970, with original leather. By Arne Jacobsen.


Piet Hein Eek's Oak Chair in scrap wood

Piet Hein Eek's Oak Chair in scrap wood

It requires roughly ten hours for a craftsman to weave paper cord across the curved frame of this oak Easy Chair (1950) by Hans Wegner before it’s complete. Another example of Wegner melding design and material without unnecessary fuss or adornment. Photo courtesy Carl Hansen & Son.

It requires roughly ten hours for a craftsman to weave paper cord across the curved frame of this oak Easy Chair (1950) by Hans Wegner before it’s complete. Another example of Wegner melding design and material without unnecessary fuss or adornment. Photo courtesy Carl Hansen & Son.


The Cord Chair, by Jacques Guillon, is in production again for the first time in over fifty years. 

The Cord Chair, by Jacques Guillon, is in production again for the first time in over fifty years. 



Posture Chair and Ottoman Set from Modern by Dwell Magazine, and at $269 the most affordable!  

Posture Chair and Ottoman Set from Modern by Dwell Magazine, and at $269 the most affordable!  

Lara Deam
Lara is the Founder and CEO of Dwell. While building her own home Lara realized there were insufficient resources to help people learn about design and architecture.

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