Products tagged with mid-century modern

Vintage Leather Elephant Ottoman. A very cool and rare circa 1960 leather elephant footstool. From the 1920ies until today, these handmade leather animals appeared in a variety of sizes and figures, such as pigs, rhino’s and elephants. This beautiful...

GJ chair

This graceful molded plywood chair is one of the leading plywood chairs ever made. Due to technical constraints during the creation in 1963, only aprox. 300 pieces where made of which only a few still exist.

The re-release of this icon...

alvar aalto armchair 42

Design Alvar Aalto, 1932
Bent birch plywood
Made in Finland by Artek

"Objects are made to be completed by the human mind." -Alvar Aalto

Another sculptural chair which seems to test the limits of bent plywood manuf...

Hans Brattrud (born 1933) designed the Scandia stackable chair in 1957 as a student project at the National College of Art & Design in Oslo. The chair was revolutionary both in shape and expression. By using horizontal ribs, a twodimensional laminate...

The iconic Butterfly Stool, designed in 1954 by the Japanese designer Sori Yanagi, is a classic piece of furniture that uniquely combines Eastern forms with the plywood moulding technique developed by Charles and Ray Eames.

The gently curving silhouett

Simplex puzzle

This puzzle was made by Simplex in the Netherlands in the 1950s/60s. To make these puzzles, plywood was used that was left over from the manufacture of Philips radio cabinets. The puzzles were part of a collection of toys and learning ma

Hans Brattrud (born 1933) designed the Scandia stackable chair in 1957 as a student project at the National College of Art & Design in Oslo. The chair was revolutionary both in shape and expression. By using horizontal ribs, a twodimensional laminate...

Designed for makers of simple furniture. One of the most famous plywood icons. Made of single sheets of birch plywood. Not a single screw or joint has been used! This piece is an official italian re-edition (only about 200 pieces produced) from 1998,...

Armchair by Norman Cherner, 1958. Originally introduced in 1958, the iconic molded plywood armchair by Norman Cherner is found in collections worldwide. Reissued in exacting detail from the original drawings and molds.

Hans Brattrud (born 1933), the Scandia stackable chair designed in 1957 as a student project at the National College of Art & Design in Oslo. The chair was revolutionary.

Multipurpose Chair by Egon Eiermann
The classic beauty

The classic multipurpose chair. Until today Eiermann’s SE 68 is unique in its minimalist design and its seating comfort.

SE 68
Designer: Egon Eiermann | 1951

A tubular steel frame in c...

Hans Brattrud (born 1933), the Scandia stackable chair designed in 1957 as a student project at the National College of Art & Design in Oslo. The chair was revolutionary both in form and expression.

Hans Brattrud (born 1933), the Scandia stackable chair designed in 1957 as a student project at the National College of Art & Design in Oslo. The chair was revolutionary both in form and expression.

Industrial designer Karel Links conceived his "easy to assemble" chair in 1968. Comprised of just 3 pieces of 10 mm birch plywood, it takes only 15 seconds to assemble this amazing, steady, reliable and beautiful chair. The award winning design rec...

LAWO 1 chair, 1945/1946
High-back version
88 x 76 x 66 cm


About 1350 pieces of this chair were made.
The chair consists of one piece of laminated wood.
On the side, two narrow strips come loose from the seat and back surface, they are bent into a

Chairs take the most stress on their back legs, where they bear the weight of the user's upper body. The engineer, architect and designer Jean Prouvé incorporated this simple insight in his design for the Standard Chair: while steel tubing suffices ...