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Others are so classic, it seems like they've been around forever. We explore the back story behind some of our most recognisable bits of furniture.READ MORE: *Mid-century Modern house in Christchurch *Should you buy replica furniture? *You can have nice things without having a show home Eero Aarnio designed the first Ball Chair to his own size and proportions. The second was made to fit his wife. It has become an instantly recognisable item. You'll know it from Zoolander, Men in Black and Austin Powers: the Ball Chair has been around since 1963. Finnish designer Eero Aarnio made it for his own home, and while the basic design has remained the same, later reproductions (and imitations) have integrated audio elements, such as MP3 players.American couple Charles and Ray Eames aimed to develop furniture that could be mass-produced and affordable. Their designs for tables and chairs used inexpensive materials such as moulded plywood and fibreglass, plastic resin and wire mesh.The exception was the 1956 Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, which incorporated exotic wood veneers and leather cushions.
Ray and Charles Eames were the designers of some of the most recognisable pieces of mass-produced modern furniture, including moulded fibreglass chairs. The Eames Lounge Chair has become one of the most iconic pieces of modern furniture.Arguably the most imitated designs from the Midcentury period (and one of the most stylistically versatile) the Tulip Chair and Pedestal Table were designed by Eero Saarinen.Both pieces have the smooth lines of modernism and were experimental with materials for their time. Saarinen had hoped to produce the Tulip chair as a one-piece unit made entirely of fibreglass, but the material was too fragile. Instead, aluminium was used for the base. In the late 1960s the Tulip chair was used on the TV show Star Trek where they appeared on the bridge set of the U.S.S. Enterprise and throughout the rest of the ship. Most people either love or hate Marcel Breuer's Wassily chair, also known as Model B3. It's believed to be the first chair made of bent tubular steel;
and, according to folklore, Breuer's design was inspired by the handlebars of the bicycle he rode to work each day.Unsurprisingly, when the chair debuted in the late 1920's, it was not a commercial success and after a few years production was halted. The Wassily chair was fabricated using the techniques of local plumbers. It is among the most identifiable icons of the modern furniture movement It's been back in production since the 1950s, but the original B3 chairs command prices upwards of $10,000.From the same period, the LC-3 chair by Le Corbusier has been in continual production since 1928.It was designed as a modernist response to the traditional club chair, with leather cushions held in a chrome-plated steel corset. Steve Jobs greatly admired architect and designer Le Corbusier's desire to change the way people lived through contemporary design. Steve Jobs sat in a LC-3 when he introduced the iPad at a 2010 Apple press conference. In the modern day BBC adaptation Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch often sits in a LC-3.
You may not know his name, but his work is instantly recognisable. Adrian Pearsall designed furniture that was considered quite daring when it was first produced in the 1960s.He incorporated swooping curves of wood and glass, geometric and highly angular shapes. Pearsall's noteworthy designs include the combination end table and sofa, and free-form walnut and glass tables. The swooping curves of wood and glass that identify furniture by Adrian Pearsall reflected his passion for boat building. And here's something to remember for the next pub quiz: Pearsall was the creator of the "beanbag" chair.The Anglepoise is a balanced-arm lamp designed in 1932 by British designer George Carwardine. While working as a consultant developing vehicle suspension systems, Cawardine created a spring-based mechanism which he recognised had applications in other fields. The key feature of the Anglepoise design is the placement of all springs (either three or four) near the base.The joints and spring tension allow the lamp to be moved into a wide range of positions which it will maintain without being clamped.