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Vaarni has expanded Ronan Bouroullec’s Maasto range by releasing the 016 Maasto Dining Table in Finsh pine plywood during Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design 2024 festival. The 016 Maasto Dining Chair was released earlier in the year. The Maasto range is designed to be suitable for domestic and commercial settings. Vaarni manufactures its pine plywood locally, reviving Pine plywood production in Finland. Photo by Vaarni. Vaarni
Charles and Ray Eames designed the Fibreglass Armchair DAR in 1950 following a design competition entry two years earlier at the New York MOMA. The chair is made of a steel wire base, known as the Eiffel Tower version and a dyed-through glass-fibre reinforced polyester base which in some colours is slightly transparent as in the earlier models. Vitra
The Kawara armchair is made of moulded plywood with a curved backrest and armrest. The chair is designed by the Paris studio of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for the Japanese furniture brand Koyori. Photo Hiroshi Iwasaki. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Koyori
While working at the department store Metz & Co in Amsterdam, Gerrit Rietveld worked on the brief to create a chair for serial production. The result was the iconic Utrecht armchair, which has been manufactured by Cassina in Italy since 1988. Cassina
Gio Ponti designed the D.153.1 armchair for his private house in Milan. This re-edition is based on the original drawings from the ponti archives. Molteni & Co