The Round Chair

An aerial view of work on the round chair

Of all his designs, Wegner declared the Round Chair as his greatest achievement, “not because of its export success, but because I have been more thorough with it than anything else”.

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The Wishbone Chair

A set of Wishbone Chairs At a table

The CH24, a.k.a. Wishbone Chair, turned out to be the most commercially successful of the more than 500 chairs that Wegner designed in his lifetime. Sometimes referred to as a supermodel chair, for the number of interior design magazine covers it has graced, no work on chairs would be complete without some mention of it.

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A Celebration of Design Collaboration

Charles and Ray Eames Laying Down

Over recent years, there seems to be more of an interest in how the practice of design has worked. The how is less about structure and techniques and more about the stories and the relationships that followed the journeys of iconic creations. What has emerged from this is a celebration of collaborations, without which, the design world as we know it would appear quite different.

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A Few of our Favourite Things

Design Inspirations from famous chair creators

To celebrate the work of Lilly Reich, Charlotte Perriand and Ray Eames, we have collated a lookbook of their finest collaborative and individual architectural, industrial and furniture designs.

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