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Fur Armchair in Brazilian Contemporary Style
By Tiago Curioni
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
The Black Sheep chair was conceived under the concepts of ergonomics. The two cylinders are perfectly adapted to the contours of the human body and the cur...
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2010s Brazilian Other Most-Saved Items

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Steel

Kelly Wearstler Hume Marble Sculptural Chair
By Kelly Wearstler
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Uniquely carved from stone blocks and straddling the line between sculpture and functional design, the Hume chair can be used as both an indoor or outdoor decorative seating option. Each piece is hand carved from natural stone and is available in either nero marquina, big flower, or grey rainbow stone...
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2010s North American Modern Most-Saved Items

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Marble

Louis XVI Style Sofa
By La Maison London
Located in London, Park Royal
Louis XVI style canape made by La Maison London. Hand carved in solid wood, painted in an ecru white with gold highlights. Upholstered in a fabric of your choice Please note: 11m of...
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2010s British Louis XVI Most-Saved Items

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Giltwood

Cairn Stool in Oiled Maple by Alvaro Uribe for Wooda
By Alvaro Uribe
Located in Omro, WI
The Cairn collection by Alvaro Uribe for Wooda challenges the perception of furniture being purely functional. We believe furniture brings a sense of spirituality and magic to our li...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Most-Saved Items

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Hardwood, Walnut, Maple

Fiberglass Upholstered Swivel Tilt Lounge Chair by Buaghman for Thayer Coggin
By Thayer Coggin, Milo Baughman
Located in New York, NY
Very cool and rare swivel tilt lounge chair Space Age style, designed by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin. This example is in untouched, original condition, showing only light cosmeti...
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Mid-20th Century American Space Age Most-Saved Items

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Upholstery, Fiberglass

Av. México Armchair, Powder-Coated Metal and Fabric, Contemporary Mexican Design
By Comité de Proyectos
Located in Mexico City, MX
The Avenida Mexico colorful sofa is a light, metal dark blue-structured sofa ideal for COVERED outdoors spaces. Its metal structure is powder-coated whi...
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2010s Mexican Modern Most-Saved Items

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Metal

Italian Midcentury Side Chair after Gio Ponti with Gold and Ivory Cut Velvet
By Gio Ponti
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Italian midcentury side chair after Gio Ponti with gold yellow and ivory cut velvet, circa 1950s. So many details, where to begin. The b...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Velvet

Contemporary Armchair in Mexican Ebony with Handmade Weaving by Ania Wolowska
By Ania Wolowska
Located in PARQUE INDUSTRIAL OTHON P BLANCO, Quintana Roo
The Káan Armchair incorporates hammock weaving into a comfortable and functional armchair, which can also be taken apart for ease of transportation and to minimize the carbon footprint. Small bronze bolts make assembly and disassembly easy, they also give the piece stability. When you combine the native tropical wood of southern Mexico with traditional weaving, you get something new, allowing us to enjoy the hammock experience in indoor and outdoor spaces. _ design: Ania Wolowska finish : waxed available in: Mexican Ebony...
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2010s Mexican Modern Most-Saved Items

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Hardwood, Katalox

ROYAL Chaise Lounge by Nathalie du Pasquier for Memphis Milano
By Memphis Group
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Famed MEMPHIS Chaise/Couch by the brilliant Nathalie Du Pasquier (France) from the amazing 1983 MEMPHIS Collection. Upholstered in her revered "CERCHIO" ("Circles") textile w/ armre...
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Most-Saved Items

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Fabric, Lacquer, Laminate

Postmodern Cotton Velvet Galatea Armchair Walnut Wood and Marble
Located in RIO TINTO, PT
Galatea armchair is part of the new Malabar's collection - Classic futures. Know for his surrealist paintings, Salvador Dalí was one of the most co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Most-Saved Items

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Marble

Odette Curvy Dining Chair with Armrests in Solid Oak Wood by Fred&Juul
By Fred&Juul
Located in Fiesole, Florence
Odette elegantly shows that a wooden chair can recall the coziness of our grandparents’ wingback armchairs. At first sight she seems to belong to the vast array of bentwood chairs, b...
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2010s Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Wood, Oak

Eclipse Fiberglass Upholstered Ottoman by Asa Pingree
By Asa Pingree
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The base is made of a lightweight fiberglass composite with a molded gel coat surface that is extremely durable and suitable for extended outdoor life. Th...
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2010s American Most-Saved Items

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Fabric, Upholstery, Fiberglass

"Hanbury" Fabric or Leather Lounge Chair Made in Teak by Dessie' Collection
By Dessie Studio
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Hanbury" is a lounge chair, included into the Dessie' collection and manufactured by Dessie', made in solid teak with seat and back upholstered in fabric or in chamois leather. Indoor and outdoor use. DIMENSIONS: D. 38.6", W. 21.2", H. 28.3" DESSIE' company's mission is putting a contemporary spin on the old tradition of cabinet-making, in order to offer pieces of furniture ready to get people excited and to satisfy aesthetic and functional values of the contemporary way of living. Dessie' was started during 1990s and now proposes a collection of pieces of furniture inviting to discover a sophisticated and elegant design, an unique style where different influences merge, and to re-create a simple and refined design atmosphere for unconventional people who are freely looking for essential and high quality pieces. A collection, including tables, small tables, writing desks, console tables, bedside tables, chairs, bookcases, dressers, cabinets, cupboards, upholstered pieces of furniture and lamps, which was created having in mind an essential style and a careful attention to recent trends. Harmony of forms and care for high quality and rational design, attentively studying any detail, are some of key features of production by Dessie', which has been always reworking the legacy from the tradition by means of a strongly contemporary design language. The aim is to create a forward-looking style which anyway doesn't lose the value of the past as a main feature, in order to give any setting an original charme, indifferent to passing fads. Hence here's a formal language which uninterruptedly takes care of details and precious finishes, while experimenting expressive capabilities of the best materials: precious woods, steel, leather, natural fibers, etc. Flexibility and possibility of customizing any piece in order to offer a "tailor-made" production is one of key design criteria followed by Dessie'. Dessie' established a close cooperation with some famous international designers, like the Catalan Jaime Tresserra, who designed "Tecnica" collection. Besides its own production, Dessie' has been taking the assignment of selecting products by some Spanish companies (Andreu World, Carpyen, Dae, Indecasa, Mobles 114, Punt Mobles...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Fabric, Teak, Leather

DS-1088 Configurable Patchwork Leather Sofa with Elongated Cushions by De Sede
By De Sede
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Four adjustable sofa base elements DS-1088/05 and three cushions DS-1088/96 by de Sede. Patchwork in its prettiest form. DS-1088 presents itself with a beautiful special feature. The leather is elaborately crafted by hand in a patchwork appearance – for an individually stylish look. The sofa landscape consists of single cubic elements that can be combined with one another in infinite ways. Cushions with an elongated design need no attachment to stay on the sofa and can be moved around in flexible ways. We launched this favorite sofa back in 1975. Now, nearly 45 years later, we are celebrating its comeback. Details: Standard configuration: Seat element in a patchwork look, connectors can be used to combine the individual seating elements to create custom sofa landscapes. Upholstery and assembly: Sedex upholstery covered with wadding. Compact frame made of panel materials and strapped to seat frame. Cushions filled with spelt chaff and latex for combined support and comfort. Glides for hard and soft floor coverings. Function: Unused connectors can be removed. Note: Loosely covered...
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Most-Saved Items

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Leather

Sofa Mp-61 in Rosewood by Brazilian Designer Percival Lafer, 1973
By Percival Lafer
Located in New York, NY
In his designs, Percival Lafer sought ergonomy and comfort. The MP-61 sofa and armchair, from 1973, was the first two pieces designed by Percival Lafer that used a visible fiberglass...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Rosewood, Leather, Fiberglass

"Rock Chair" Black, White or Gray Dining Chair by Moroso for Diesel
By Moroso, Diesel Creative Team 1
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Rock Chair" is a dining chair, designed by Diesel Creative Team and manufactured by Moroso, featuring a shell in structural polyurethane, feet in beech and glides in nylon. Availabl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Nylon, Beech

Kartell Colonna Stool in Violet by Ettore Sottsass
By Kartell, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Colonna stool is included in the Kartell goes Sottsass - A Tribute to Memphis collection, launched in 2015 in homage to the movement founded by desig...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Plastic

Diana Armchair in Blue Soft or Black Soft Velvet
Located in Paris, FR
Armchair Diana upholstered in blue soft velvet with structure in solid wood. Feet in steel in gold finish. Also available in yellow or black soft velvet.  
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Most-Saved Items

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Velvet, Wood

Pierre Paulin Pacha Lounge Chair with Returning Swivel for GUBI
By Gubi, Pierre Paulin
Located in Glendale, CA
Pierre Paulin Pacha lounge chair upholstered in Harp ivory fabric (24). Paulin designed the Pacha lounge chair in 1975 with the intention of creatin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Most-Saved Items

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Cotton, Wood

"Xitle" Lounge Chair
By ADN Studio
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
The "Xitle" lounge chair is part of ADN Studio´s Volcan Collection. This collection seeks to go back to basics. It is a subtle and refined interpretation of the archetypical Modern f...
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2010s Mexican Modern Most-Saved Items

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Hardwood

Customizable Modern Dining Chair Lago, wood, natural fiber.Upholstery
By Comité de Proyectos
Located in Mexico City, MX
This Classic design has a modern flourish without overshadowing the handcrafted details from the Natural Palm woven back that makes it so unique. The Lago dining chair...
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2010s Mexican Modern Most-Saved Items

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Natural Fiber, Hardwood

Philodendron Leaf Dining Chair in Polychromed Brass by Christopher Kreiling
By Christopher Kreiling Studio
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Philodendron leaf dining chair is hand-sculpted in solid brass and is as comfortable as it is gorgeous! Each chair weighs about 38 pounds - making it well suited for outdoor cond...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Most-Saved Items

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Brass

Contemporary armchair, high gloss yellow, leather, by Jaime Hayon "Gardenias"
By Jaime Hayon
Located in Barcelona, ES
The Gardenias Collection is the second largest collection by Jaime Hayon for BD. It has quality, personality, elegance and just the right amount of romanticism and much versatility for the home as well as contract. The indoor collection includes an armchair and a sofa with a more refined image, which we present with new finishes and upholstery. Ideal armchair for your living room Structure in cast aluminium and laminates in extruded aluminium. Painted in high-gloss yellow...
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21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Most-Saved Items

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Aluminum

Thayer Coggin 3 Piece Sectional by Milo Baughman Mid-Century Modern
By Milo Baughman
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Extremely rare Milo Baughman Thayer Coggin chrome plinth base three-piece sectional sofa. We have never seen another sofa quite like it with giant heavy chromed steel backrests and chromed cube side...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Chrome

"Reflet" Sofa in Ebony and Sycamore Wood, Multifunctions by Aymeric Lefort
By Aymeric Lefort
Located in SENLIS, OISE
The idea for this sofa was to put together in one furniture all what you need to surround a sofa, a chest of drawers, side tables and standing lights. ...
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Early 2000s French Modern Most-Saved Items

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Fabric, Ebony

Baleri Italia Tato Pouf in White Fabric by Denis Santachiara
By Denis Santachiara, Baleri Italia
Located in Milano, Lombardia
To make pure, elementary, ideal form into something comfortable. Beneath these spheroidal forms, visually striking, but apparently uncomfortable, seemingly useless, the technology of...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Fabric

21st Century Modular Mood Sofa Cotton Velvet
Located in RIO TINTO, PT
Mood sofa is part of the New Malabar's collection, future Classic. Alexander Rodchenko, considered one of the founders of the Constructivism movement, sough...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Most-Saved Items

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Velvet, Walnut

Minimalist Arched Upholstered Arcade Bench Lacquer on Oak by Martin and Brockett
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Martin & Brockett's Arcade Bench 48” in Lacquer is a nod to the ancient Roman architectural form- a succession of contiguous arches supported by columns. It...
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2010s American Modern Most-Saved Items

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Oak

Pair of Karl Springer Goatskin Onassis Bar Stools, 1980s
By Karl Springer
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Onassis bar stools in lacquered goatskin with hand-stitched black leather seats and brass foot rails by Karl Springer, American, 1980s.
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1980s American Modern Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Brass

Faye Toogood Roly Poly Contemporary Dining Chair in Cream Fibreglass, London
By Faye Toogood
Located in Barcelona, ES
Roly-Poly Dining Chair Raw Manufactured by Faye Toogood London, 2018 Fiberglass Measurements 68cm wide x 50cm deep x 75cm hight 26.77in wide x 19.68in deep x 29.52in hight Colors ...
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2010s British Most-Saved Items

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Fiberglass

Juniper Chair by Sun at Six, Sienna, Minimalist Chair in Wood and Leather
By Sun at Six
Located in San Jose, CA
Sun at Six is a contemporary furniture design studio that works with traditional Chinese joinery masters to handcraft our pieces using traditional joinery. A simple classic, inspired by traditional shaker style. Clean, straightforward, and versatile, the Juniper chair...
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2010s Chinese Minimalist Most-Saved Items

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Oak, Leather

Sling Hanging Swing Chair Genuine Brown Leather 21st Century Modern
By Joanina and David Pastoll
Located in Johannesburg, ZA
Stripped away from all excess, this hanging chair has a circular frame with a sheet of natural thick leather hanging loose within it, to create a sleek, sexy, and oh so comfortable e...
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2010s South African Modern Most-Saved Items

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Steel

"Pietra" Organic Armchair with Leather Arms Upholstered in Bouclé Fabric
By Studio Marta Manente
Located in Centro, RS
Pietra from Italian: Stone The designer Marta Manente is of Italian descent, her great-grandparents migrated from Italy over 100 years ago and lived in the region of Bento Gonçalves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Bouclé

Carob Counter Stool by Sun at Six, Sienna Minimalist Stool in Oak Wood
By Sun at Six
Located in San Jose, CA
Sun at six is a contemporary furniture design studio working with traditional Chinese joinery masters to handcraft our pieces using traditional joinery. This minimal counter stool combines clean lines with quality material: solid white oak and vegetable tanned leather from a multi-generation family-run Italian tannery in Tuscany. Made using traditional joinery techniques with exposed tenons visible throughout. For the Carob stool...
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2010s Chinese Minimalist Most-Saved Items

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Leather, Oak

Midcentury 3-Seat Sofa, German, 1970s
Located in Praha, CZ
- Made in Germany - Made of wood, fabric - Original upholstery - Good, original condition.
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1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Fabric, Wood

"Atlante" Sculptural Bronze Bench by Alexandre Logé
By Alexandre Logé
Located in New York, NY
Made to order sculptural bench by Alexandre Logé. Cast from bronze and upholstered with customer's own material. Lead time: 20-24 weeks. C.O.M. Fabric: 2 yards. C.O.M. Leather: 1/...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Mid-Century Modern Most-Saved Items

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Bronze

Pink Velvet Bench, Designed by Marco Zito, Made in Italy
By Marco Zito
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Scroll down and click "view all from Seller" to see more than 400 other unique products. (1.8) Pink Velvet Bench This velvet bench offers a multipur...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Velvet

Reeves Swivel Bar or Counter Stool W/ Ash stained Walnut legs & Brass Finish.
Located in Westport, CT
Swivel bar stool with Ash legs stained Walnut #2 and satin brass finish accents. Seat and back shown upholstered in green leather. Available in bar height (30" seat height), counter ...
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2010s Modern Most-Saved Items

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Metal

Anna Karlin Counter Chess Height Stool, Shape D
By Anna Karlin
Located in New York, NY
Taking their cue from the original Chess Stool Series, these forms have been elongated to serve as larger pieces within a room. Perfect for count...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Most-Saved Items

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Steel, Brass

Crooked Asymmetrical Bench in Massive Oak with Oil Wax Finish
By Nazara Lazaro
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The absence of 90° angles and symmetries – this is the concept of The Crooked Collection. Handmade in Berlin, Germany, each piece is unique. The massive oak gives the piece a premium...
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2010s German Modern Most-Saved Items

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Oak

Forsyth Bespoke Eero Saarinen Womb Chair Without Ottoman in California Sheepskin
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in SAINT LOUIS, MO
Note: The listing is for womb chair only, no ottoman included. A favourite of the Forsyth design team! We have an incredible collection of vintage chairs and design icons waiting f...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Most-Saved Items

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Sheepskin

Excellent Pair of Kidney Shaped Sofas Mid-Century Modern
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Excellent pair of kidney shaped sofas-Vladimir Kagan style. This pair is super clean and in excellent condition.
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1980s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Upholstery, Walnut

Pantonova Chair and Ottoman by Verner Panton, Chrome Steel and Cognac Leather
By Fritz Hansen, Verner Panton
Located in Kansas City, MO
Wedge shaped chair and ottoman designed by Verner Panton for his Pantonova Series manufactured by Fritz Hansen. Completely original including the cognac / camel color leather cusions...
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1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Chrome

Ludovica+Roberto Palomba Driade "Mod" Three-Seat Sectional Sofa, 2017
By Ludovica + Roberto Palomba 1, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The "Mod" three-seat sectional sofa is designed by Ludovica +Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade. "Mod" is available in various modules, with or without backrests make this an...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Steel

Cobra Coral Chair
By Sergio Matos
Located in Campina Grande, Paraiba
Product in the permanent collection at the Museum of Arts and Design – New York Exoticism ripples in contours and colors. It is the brand of the Cobra Coral chair...
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21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Most-Saved Items

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Stainless Steel

1983, Marc Newson, Orgone Chair in White
By Cappellini, Marc Newson
Located in Amsterdam IJMuiden, NL
This chair is part of the private collection of Casey Godrie and is situated in his private house. Ask him for competitive shipping quotes. His incredible Dune Villa, Amsterdam Beach, find more details on his family name plus eu, is for sale soon too. :-) Orgone in white. Beautiful sculptural chair. There are two Orgone chair...
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1980s Italian Modern Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Plastic

Contemporary Minimal Bleached Oak Daybed Bench Mirror Polish St. Steel Backrest
By Felicia Ferrone
Located in Chicago, IL
Inspired by the antique wooden block planers used for working wood, the contemporary, minimal bleached oak Block Daybed and bench has the mirror ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Most-Saved Items

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Stainless Steel

Hans Wegner Settee Model JH 555
By Hans J. Wegner
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful and rare example by Hans Wegner, Model JH 555 for Johannes Hansen, Denmark, circa 1950. Very good original condition oak frame and original fabric, b...
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1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Oak

Kartell Trix Sofa Bed by Piero Lissoni in Orange
By Piero Lissoni, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Trix is made up of three different elements connected by an elegant system of elastics which can transform and adapt to different uses through easy rotation. Trix can be an original two-person pouf, a comfortable bed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Fabric, Plastic

Minimal Organic Chair in Solid Wood, Upholstered Seating
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
THE COLLANA SERIES – WHERE ARTISTRY MEETS COMFORT IN EVERY CURVE." Introducing the Collana Chairs, Armchairs and ottomans Collection, a testament to the seamless integration of aest...
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2010s Brazilian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Fiberglass, Hardwood

Ten Chair by Sun at Six, Sienna Midcentury Lounge Chair in Wood, Leather
By Sun at Six
Located in San Jose, CA
Sun at Six is a contemporary furniture design studio that works with traditional Chinese joinery masters to handcraft our pieces using traditional joinery. Vegetable tanned leather w...
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2010s Asian Mid-Century Modern Most-Saved Items

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Oak, Leather

Pair of Custom Made Danish Modern Style Sheepskin Armchairs
By Flemming Lassen, Fritz Hansen
Located in London, GB
A pair of custom-made armchairs based on the Danish Modern styles of the 1940-50s. These high-end productions are handmade to order at our workshops in England. The chair legs are available in oiled walnut...
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2010s British Scandinavian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Sheepskin, Beech

Original Sunball Chair by Gunter Ris and Ferdinand Selldorf for Rosenthal
By Ris and Selldorf, Rosenthal
Located in Little Burstead, Essex
This is a fully restored original version of this 1960's iconic classic astronaut's helmet style space age outdoor swivel chair, As you can imagin...
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Mid-20th Century German Space Age Most-Saved Items

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Velvet, Fiberglass

Una 'Articolo Indeterminativo' Wood Chaise Longue
By Stefano Marolla
Located in Roma, IT
The chaise longue is the third piece of the collection Una (Articolo Indeterminativo) by Stefano Marolla. The name of the collection comes from the Italian grammar where the indeterminative article precedes a non-identified noun. The objects play on the ambiguity of the matter than can deceive the eye: a sturdy element like wood, hand-curved and levigated, looks like a light tapestry. The curves and the soft drapery of the wood are inspired by a long and attentive study on the usage of drapery in art’s history, going back from the ancient Greece to Bernini’s sculptures...
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2010s Italian Modern Most-Saved Items

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Wood

Jean Prouvé Armchair
By Jules Leleu, Jean Prouvé
Located in Stockton, NJ
Enameled steel armchair for Martel de Janville Sanatorium, Plateau d'Assy. Ateliers Jean Prouvé, 1936.
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1930s French Vintage Most-Saved Items

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Steel

Jose Zanine Caldas Pair of Mid-century modern BrazilianArmchairs Model "H"
By José Zanine Caldas
Located in Barcelona, ES
JOSE ZANINE DE CALDAS (1919-2001). Pair of armchairs model “H.” Manufactured by Moveis Artísticos Z. Brazil, 1949. Marine plywood, fabric upholstery. Measuremenents 58 cm x 50 cm x 80 H cm. Literature: Habitat, nº9, Sao Paulo 1952. José Zanine Caldas (Belmonte, Bahia, 1918 - Vitória, Espírito Santo, 2001) was an architect and designer. Caldas stands out on the national architecture in Brazil for his exploration of the constructive qualities of Brazilian woods, defining his work with a warm rustic ambience, working on both high-end residential projects and also popular constructions. Never actually training as an architect, he starting working in the 1940s as a designer at Severo & Villares and as a member of the National Artistic Historical Heritage Service (Sphan). He opens a maquet studio in Rio de Janeiro, where he worked between 1941 and 1948, and, at the suggestion of Oswaldo Bratke (1907-1997), moved the studio to São Paulo, from 1949 to 1955. The studio served important modern architects of the two cities, and was responsible for most of the models presented in the book Modern Architecture in Brazil, 1956, by Henrique E. Mindlin (1911-1971).. During the 1940s, he also began developing and researching at the Institute of Technological Research of the University of São Paulo (IPT/USP), and was first introduced to plywood. In 1949, he founded the Fábrica Móveis Artísticos Z, with the objective of producing large-scale industrialized furniture, good quaility and afforable, the furniture was to be materialized using plywood sheets. This method minimized material waste and the need for artisan skills, as the parts were mechanically produced and the use of labor was only needed for the assembling of the furniture. His time at Móveis Artísticos Z, in 1953 was rather short lived and left the company in 1953 and instead worked on landscape projects until 1958 in São Paulo, when he moved to Brasília, where he built his first house, also in 1958, and coordinated the construction of others until 1964. Appointed by Rocha Miranda to Darcy Ribeiro (1922-1997), he joined the University of Brasília (UnB) in 1962 and taught modeling classes until 1964, when he lost his position due to the military coup. He set off and travelled through Latin America and Africa, an experience that had a remarkable effect on his work. On return to Brazil he built his second house, the first of a series of projects in the Joatinga region of Rio de Janeiro. In 1968, he moved to Nova Viçosa, Bahia, and opened a workshop, which ran up until 1980. His experience in the Bahian city was shaped by his renewed love and contact with nature, and he began working closely with environmentalists. In one of these collaborations, he participated in the project of an environmental reserve with the artist Frans Krajcberg (1921-2017) for whom he also designed a studio in 1971. The furniture he designed during this period, is reflective of his ecological sensitivity, his works were constructed with crude logs of wood, whose twisted lines inspire his drawings. It is also in Nova Viçosa that the architect builds the Casa dos Triângulos (1970) and casa da Beira do Rio (1970), in which he adopted a very artisanal construction system with typical woods of the region. According to the historian and architecture critic Roberto Conduru, Caldas' performance was relevant for the diffusion of environmental values in architectural projects: a "taste for the alternative and the rustic was disseminated throughout the Brazilian territory [...], encouraged by environmental preservation campaigns, by the wear and tear of the current models in reinforced concrete and by the re-emergence of the regionalist ideal in the international panorama"1. Between 1970 and 1978, he kept an office in Rio de Janeiro, where he returned in 1982. In 1975, the filmmaker Antonio Carlos da Fontoura made the film Arquitetura de Morar, about the houses of Joatinga, with a soundtrack by Tom Jobim (1927-1993), for whom Caldas designed a house. Two years later, the architect's work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ), at the São Paulo Museum of Art Assis Chateaubriand (Masp) in Belo Horizonte, and the following year at Solar do Unhão, in Salvador. Between 1980 and 1982 The Helium House Olga Jr was designed and built in São Paulo. Caldas outlined the plans for the construction sourcing the all the wood, the actual assembly of the house was carried out by the owner. The house, is defined by wooden structure that stands out from the fence walls, the clay tile roof of wide eaves and the demolition materials that give the building the feeling of rusticity, warmth and nostalgia. The house was similar to those built in the 1970s for Eurico Ficher and Pedro Valente, in Joatinga. In 1983, Calders founded the Center for the Development of Applications of The Woods of Brazil (DAM), and gave it to UnB in 1985. During this period, he proposed the creation of the Escola do Fazer, a teaching center focused on the use of wood for the construction of houses, furniture and utilitarian objects for the low-income population. Despite the fact that much of Calders early work was centered around building houses for the elite, in the 1980s the designer dedicates himself the DAM where he rigorously researches popular housing based on artisan construction processes and whereby the users participate in the construction process. At the Brasília unit, he developed prototypes of popular houses with eucalyptus logs as a structure and sealing in soil-cement, betting on an ideal of self-construction already tested at Casa do Nilo, in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro. From that moment on, as occurred with his the furniture designs, Caldas adopts the use of crude wood logs rolled...
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