Mid-century modern furniture
Eight iconic mid-century modern designs that never went out of production
“Legacy furniture manufacturers have been asleep at the wheel” say Rarify founders
Eight often-overlooked mid-century modern designers
Dezeen’s guide to mid-century modern design from A to Z
The Chandigarh chair “problematises standard notions of revival”
Florence Knoll Bassett “led an office revolution”
Arne Jacobsen “dared to work with modern materials” for Egg chair
“Design was a new profession” in the UK says Paula Day
Isamu Noguchi’s sculptural Akari lamps are “poetic, ephemeral, and tentative”
Eames Shell chair aims to get “the best to the greatest number of people for the least”
The organic designs of Eero Saarinen went “beyond the measly ABC” of modernism
Harry Bertoia’s Diamond Chair requires “primitive method” of construction
Ten Verner Panton products that have stood the test of time
Verner Panton preferred experimentation to “beautiful platitude”
The Panton chair helped “provoke people into using their imagination”
Original mid-century Chandigarh furniture exhibited in collector’s London townhouse
Charles and Ray Eames changed the landscape of design with “just a few chairs and a house”
Charlotte Perriand’s Bibliothèques countered the “quite elitist” furniture she created for Le Corbusier
Whether “teaspoons or a national bank”, Arne Jacobsen designed things down to the last detail
Hans J Wegner’s CH24 Wishbone Chair “captured the essence of modern Danish design”
Eero Saarinen’s Tulip table has “a kind of dishonesty to it”
“Mid-century modern is classic, it’s never going away” says Cara Greenberg
Mid-century modern design “embraced a more human aesthetic while remaining aggressively forward-looking”
