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Every age has its chair. The swinging 60s had the beanbag, perfect for lolling about and discussing the meaning of life, but the star of the decade is surely the plastic stacking chair designed by ...

Department store John Lewis and furniture manufacturer Hille are relaunching British furniture designer Robin Day's iconic 1963 injection-moulded polypropylene school chair. In celebration of the ...

Maybe you’re sitting on one right now. It has a high back with slats, or arches, or a fan of leaf blades, or some intricate tracery. Its legs are wide and splayed, not solid. The plastic in the seat ...

Where office spaces are destined for different purposes, furniture offering maximum flexibility is required too. This is why Wilkhahn collaborated with designer Wolfgang Mezger to adapt a vertically ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Every age has its chair. The swinging 60s had the beanbag, perfect for lolling about and discussing the ...

Furniture designer Robin Day, who has died at the age of 95, lived to become a legend in his own lifetime. Day created the world's first Polypropylene chair, fondly known as the "Polyprop", one of the ...