CHAIR
£16.95; phaidon.com
Phaidon’s new book Chair: 500 Designs That Matter is a dictionary of chair design. Here are some key pieces
WOOD CHAIR, 1988 MARK NEWSON (1963–)
The Wood ood Chair was designed by Mark Newson for an exhibition in Sydney of chairs made from Australian wood. Newson's approach to design is not simply to tinker with existing typologies, but to take a lateral look at them and imagine the perfect version.
MIES CHAIR, 1969 ARCHIZOOM ASSOCIATI
POLTRONOVA (1969 TO PRESENT)
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Italy was a melting pot of radical design thinking. Perhaps most influential in this creative climate was Archizoom, a design studio founded in Florence in 1966. In designing the 1969 Mies chair, Archizoom set out to both honour and critique the larger-than-life legacy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who had passed away that year.
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