Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen of OS and OOS designed the Matrix Bench as part of the Matix project. The project aims to create a system with endless configurations using a grid structure that changes from being almost transparent to solid depending on the perspective. Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen work from Eidenhover in the Netherlands and created OS and OOs in 2011. OS and OOS
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AC/AL Studio Trame Chair
The Trame chair for both inside and exterior use is designed by Amandine Chhor and Aïssa Logerot for Petite Friture. The chair is manufactured from steel and epoxy coated. Petite Friture
Max Lamb Plank Furniture
The roots of Max Lamb's Plank furniture lies in the carpenters workbench. The wide planks of oak and Douglas Fir preserve the uninterrupted wood grain in the furniture and also demonstrate the impressive scale of the tree. Benchmark
MOREThomas Sandell Melt Bookcase
The Melt Bookcase in matt finished white Carrara marble is designed by the architect Thomas Sandell for the Verona based stone workers Marsotto. Thomas Sandell founded the architecture and design practice Sandellsandberg in Sweden. Marsotto
MOREPearson Lloyd Famiglia Seating
Pearson Lloyd designed the Famigila range of seating for Allermuir in 2016. Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd created the design studio over 20 years ago in Shoreditch, East London. Allermuir
MOREHeatherwick Studio Friction Table
Launched at the Daniel Katz Gallery the Friction Table is designed by Heatherwick Studio. The Friction Table uses a pivot mechanism and a lattice structure to stretch from a 1.8m diameter table to an elliptical form that is over 4m long. Heatherwick Studio
MOREGianfranco Frattini Kyoto Table
The Kyoto table is designed by Gianfranco Frattini, now manufactured by Poltrona Frau and consists of beech wood slats joined at 45 degrees to form 1,705 joints and 1,600 holes. Gianfranco Frattini worked with his mentor Gio Ponti and subsequently started his own practice in Milan in 1954. Gianfranco Frattini
MOREArne Jacobsen leyla piedayesh Series 7™ Velvet Chair
Arne Jacobsen's Series 7™ chair is the subject of a collaboration between Fritz Hansen and Leyla Piedayesh's Lala Berlin fashion brand. Bold colours and velvets adorn the Series 7 chairs. Fritz Hansen
MOREMuller van severen wire s# lounge chair
The wire s# lounge chair is part of a furniture collection designed by artists Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen. The collection sits been art and furniture, and the wire s# lounge chair is manufactured in powder coated stainless steel. Muller van Severen
Jacques Adnet MJA Table Lamp
The MJA table lamp was designed in 1930 by Jacques Adnet. Jacques Adnet was a great exponent of French Modernism. MJA, Memory of Jacques Adnet, has been in production since 2005, prior to which it was only a prototype. The lamp is made of brass with a Palladium finish. Lumen Center Italia
MOREJean Nouvel LessLess Table
LessLess is a complete range of tables, rectangular and square, painted in different colours. An aluminum table the strength of which lies in a play on corners and folds. The external outline of the horizontal table top is very thin and stiff and it is obtained by bending the aluminum sheet along inclined planes. Designed by Jean Nouvel, originally for the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the LessLess tables are a result of his approach to design which comes from a need to create objects for his architectures. Molteni & C
MORECharles Pollock cp1 for Bernhardt Design
Lounge Seating designed by Charles Pollock for Bernhardt Design. Charles Pollock's designs were governed by two principles. Creatively, he favored a continuous curved line when sketching ideas and creating forms. The second principle was that any product must be visually attractive, functional, and affordable. In 2012, the 82-year-old Pollock introduced his first new product in America since the debut of his iconic Pollock Chair forty-seven years earlier. Pollock’s new collection CP Lounge was commissioned by Bernhardt Design. Bernhard Design
MOREPiero Lissoni Commodore Storage Unit
Storage Unit design by Piero Lissoni for Glas Italia. Storage furniture in striped or checked printed glass, tempered and glued 45°, with silvered base. The sliding doors run in transparent plexiglass tracks, whilst the slender legs are in glossy chromium-plated metal. Supplied with 8 mm thick tempered extralight glass shelves. Glas Italia.
MOREdeVOL Sebastian Cox Kitchen
This kitchen is a collaboration between Sebastian Cox and deVOL. Using only sustainable timbers, which have all been grown in England, with Birch plywood carcases, doors made from sustainable timbers such as Beech and Ash and the incorporation of beautiful and delicate woven panels, deVOL and Sebastian Cox have created a beautiful kitchen using timbers which are very often overlooked. deVOL
Karl Malmvall STEP LADDER
Karl Malmvall has designed a step ladder beautiful enough to be placed on the wall as a piece of decoration, rather than to be stoved away in a dark closet. There is even a small hook included for the purpose, so that it always can be within reach. Soild beech (lacquered) or oak. Design House Stockholm
MOREAggestrup #80 Modular Sofa
Aggestrup #80 is a modular sofa. The #80 black was Camilla Aggestrup's first edition, and the next edition is called the white edition, as an opposite. The mission is to create products that attract awareness towards moments in life and the human body itself. The sofa provides comfort, privacy and flexibility but still keeps the simple aesthetic values that are well-known from the Danish Design tradition. All products are handcrafted and produced in Denmark. Aggestrup
MOREKlauser and Carpenter utility chair
Commissioned by Canteen for their group of restaurants. This design can be seen as an evolution of the once ubiquitous post-war Utility Chair, still a familiar sight in the UK today. Klaus & Carpenter managed to reduce the chair to three main components. The powder-coated frame is made from one continuous piece of bent tube. Hidden fixings join it neatly to the plywood seat and back. Along the way they subtly updated the look of the classic archetype. The result is light weight, stackable and versatile: the Canteen Utility Chair. 2009. VG&P
MOREPinch Design Joyce Glass Fronted Cabinet
The Joyce cabinet has sliding glass-fronted doors and a timber-lined interior with four adjustable shelves and four drawers. There are 2 cable grommets above the drawers. Pinch is the collaboration between husband and wife team Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon and is run from their studio/ showroom in Clapham, London. Pinch Design.
MORENils Strinning String Shelving
Certain things become so strongly associated with an era that they become timeless. This is certainly true of Nils Strinning’s shelf system, string®, which was designed in 1949. It may seem strange that something as simple and humble as this little dainty light shelf with its thin side panels has become one of the twentieth century’s foremost design icons. String.
MOREGeorge Nakashima Straight Chair
The Straight Chair is George Nakashima's modern interpretation of the traditional Windsor chair. Originally designed in 1946 and reintroduced by KnollStudio in 2008 in collaboration with George Nakashima’s daughter, Mira. Using three-dimensional scanning software, the Knoll Development Group created an exact replica of the handmade original. Knoll
MOREHans Wegner CH24 Wishbone Chair
Hans J. Wegner designed the Wishbone chair for Carl Hansen & Søn in 1949 and it has been in continuous production since 1950. Despite the chair's straightforward appearance it takes more than 100 steps to make one and the hand woven seat consists of more than 120 meters of paper cord. Carl Hansen opened his furniture workshop in Odense, Denmark in 1908 and still manufacture in a modern factory just outside Odense. Carl Hansen
MOREMies van der rohe Barcelona couch
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was selected to design the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. Inside, Mies included chairs and stools for the King and Queen of Spain. Designed in 1930, the Barcelona Couch shares the same simple elegance as the iconic lounge chair. Mies granted Knoll the production rights to the Chair and Stool in 1953. Knoll was formed in 1938 by Hans Knoll in New York. Knoll
MOREEames Aluminium Group Chair
Charles and Ray Eames, the American designers who have made significant contributions to modern architecture and furniture, conceived and developed the Aluminium Chair in 1958 for the private residence of an art collector in Columbus, Indiana (USA). The chair is constructed by stretching fabric or leather between two aluminium side members create a taut but elastic seat. This is in contrast to the seat shell. The chair adapts to the body of the sitter and is comfortable, even without elaborate upholstery. Vitra
MOREMaarten Van Severen .03 Chair
Maarten van Severen studied architecture at the Art Academy in Ghent and produced his first furniture in 1986. In 1990 he began a collaboration with the architect Rem Koolhaus and started to concentrate on interiors. The .03 chair is designed to be unobtrusive yet comfortable and is made of resilient polyurethane integral foam. The chair is designed to respond to the body by flexing. Maarten's collaboration with the family owned Swiss manufacturer Vitra commenced in 1996. Vitra
MOREBarber Osgerby Home Table
Designed for their own home and their clients, the Home Table in oak was Barber Osgerby's first project using solid wood. Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby founded their studio in 1996 and much of their work has involved folding sheet material. Isokon Plus manufacture the Home Table and was founded in the 1930s and continues create contemporary furniture and is based in Hackney Wick, London. Isokon Plus, Barber Osgerby
MOREDieter Rams 606 Universal Shelving System by Vitsoe
The Vitsoe 606 Universal Shelving System was designed by Dieter Rams in 1960. Based on a system of an aluminium E-track and a pin, with all shelves, cabinets and table hung from the E-track. The system is designed so that you take it with you when you move. In 1959 Niels Vitsoe formed Vitsoe to create the furniture designed by Dieter Rams. Vitsoe
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