It’s Got Legs
Images: Nick Rochowski/courtesy Andy Martin Associates In the late 1940s, Gio Ponti embarked on a decade-long experiment in super-lightweight furniture design that resulted, in 1957, with his...
View ArticleLoving Panton
For more than three decades now, two bright-orange Panton Chairs have graced my apartments in New York City. They started out in the living room, then migrated to the bedroom, and now they’re my dining...
View ArticleObscure Trend Report: Piles of Chairs
Those of you who went to Milan this year had a lot on your plates. You navigated the ever-expanding array of booths. You deduced which satellite events were skippable. You managed to get some...
View ArticleThe Image vs. the Object
. Clockwise from top left: Sushir Kadidal’s Tempo chair; Alexandra Pulver’s Lunch Bag stool; Mike Jozewicz’s Nabolis chair; Esin Arsan’s 142 chair; and Jonathan Gillen’s Primitive chair . Wilsonart...
View ArticleYves Behar Talks
When he was approached by Jack Schreur, the vice president of North American Seating at Herman Miller, Yves Behar finally felt he was ready to take on the “the hardest industrial-design project” – an...
View ArticleA Love Story
A love letter to Node. from IDEO on Vimeo. One evening, while we were designing the Node chair, my wife Isa and I were musing: What if we were to peek into the classroom after hours, once the students...
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