By Gabriele
Over the last few months we have published 25 design icons that have marked the history of furniture in the twentieth century.
Last week we proposed the Italian top 10, in this article instead we had fun drawing up the ranking with our 10 favorite internationally.
10th place: Segmented
A classic office furniture designed by Mr. and Mrs. Eames.
9th place: PLR 1 Lounge
Designed by Ross Littell, it is a synthesis between essentiality and luxury, angularity and suppleness, which can undoubtedly be counted among the most successful products of “Good Design”.
8th place: Willow
Visionary design made in Scotland.
7th place: Eames Lounge Chair
A brilliant couple for a brilliant armchair. Charles and Ray Eames have created one of the most beloved pieces of the twentieth century.
6th place: LC6
Le Corbusier conceived the home as a “machine for living” and as such needed a functional “equipment” that would make domestic life as easy as possible, this table is a perfect example.
5th place: Hill House
In sixth place a product of that crossroads of styles and artistic currents that was Europe at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the Hill House Chair by Charles Mackintosh.
4th place: Fontana 1853
“Light and color are certainly the most specific elements in nature. With them we have serenity, movement, life” Max Ingrand once said, who then created this gem.
3rd place: Red & Blue
Fifteen strips in beech wood, two plywood boards, the three primary colors and black. These are the ingredients used to create one of the most iconic pieces of all time: the famous Red and Blue Chair by Rietveld that is placed on the last step of our podium.
2nd place: LC4
Comfortable, enveloping and elegant: the LC4 by Le Corbusier is a Design Icon with timeless charm.
A century after its birth, this “real machine to rest” is still beloved and universally considered the chaise longue par excellence.
1st place: Barcelona
First in our top 10 international design icons is the Barcelona armchair of that genius of Mied van der Rohe: one of the most loved (and imitated) pieces of furniture in the world.
For us it undoubtedly deserves the title of Icon among Icons.
