Industrial-grade cardboard. Probably not the first material you would associate with the voluptuous ribbon like curves and thick, luxurious looking cushion of architect Frank O. Gehry’s Bubbles chaise longue. Known for his deconstructivist buildings, Canadian-born Gehry experimented with furniture design as early as the late 1960s. He was introduced to furniture design while serving...
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This innovative stacking chair is arguably Danish designer Verner Panton’s best known work. While not the first cantilevered chair—Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld’s 1934 wooden Zig-Zag chair is an earlier example—the Panton chair was the first cantilevered chair made from a single piece of injection-molded plastic. Its fluid organic shape is made to fit the human...
Models and prototypes are an important part of Cooper-Hewitt’s collection. They represent a step in the design process and a way of showing the story of an object from concept to final product. In the 1920s, Colonel Howard Marmon, founder of the Marmon Motor Car Company, commissioned Walter Dorwin Teague, one of the first industrial...
