Fifty chairs that changed the world

"Fifty Chairs That Changed The World" includes all the design classics from Thonet’s 1870 Side Chair to Konstantin Grcic’s Chair_One.

It is possible to trace a remarkable complete history of design in the last 150 years through a sequence of chairs.

The word ‘chair’ has become embedded in our language ; they symbolise authority, identity, domesticity and because they represent such a restricted canvas.

For all these reasons, the Design Museum values its collection of contemporary chairs, and this book provides an introduction into 50 of the key chairs that have shaped the story of design.