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3107 chair (Model 3107 chair) is a variant of the Ant chair, both designed by Arne Jacobsen (see below) 40/4 (forty-in-four) stacking Chair designed by David Rowland, 1964; 406 Aalto armchair designed by Alvar Aalto in 1938 (IKEA sells a similar design called the Poäng lounge chair) 4801 armchair designed by Joe Colombo for Kartell, 1963
The No. 14 chair is the most famous chair made by the Thonet chair company. Also known as the "bistro chair", it was designed in the Austrian Empire [1] by Michael Thonet and introduced in 1859, becoming the world's first mass-produced item of furniture. [2] [3] It is made using bent wood (steam-bending), and the design required years to ...
Secrétaire à abattant by Jean-François Leleu, Paris, ca 1770 (Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris). French furniture comprises both the most sophisticated furniture made in Paris for king and court, aristocrats and rich upper bourgeoisie, on the one hand, and French provincial furniture made in the provincial cities and towns many of which, like Lyon and Liège, retained cultural identities ...
In fact, these specific rattan chairs were crafted in a time-honored technique employed by many French furniture designers: They're bent and shaped by hand until the iconic shape appears.
A man assembling an IKEA Poäng chair. Rather than being sold pre-assembled, much of IKEA's furniture is designed to be assembled by the customer. The company claims that this helps reduce costs and use of packaging by not shipping air; the volume of a bookcase, for example, is considerably less if it is shipped unassembled rather than assembled.
IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, is known for its vast self-service out-of-town stores, but it is adapting its business model in the face of mounting competition and customers who ...