Modern Furniture Blog
Design as Icon: The Womb Chair
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Nov 20th 2018
Created in 1946,
the Womb chair was designed to try and retrieve a feeling of comfort that,
according to its designer, could not be felt by anyone after they’d left their
mother’s womb. It’s a prim
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Designer of the Week: Arne Jacobsen
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Nov 14th 2018
Copenhagen,
1902. Danish merchant Johan Jacobsen and his wife Pouline, a bank clerk, have
just given birth to a son that they named Arne. The child’s restlessness and
artistic prowess
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Designer of the Week - Hans Wegner
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Nov 9th 2018
Creator of the
iconic, and weird, Flag Halyard chair, the Peacock chair, and a 1949 design
that’s just called “The Chair”, we present to you
Hans Jorgensen Wegner: Da
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What Exactly is the Tulip Table?
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Nov 6th 2018
Some people
think that a
Tulip table can be any table which has a large, oval-shaped
surface that matches a smaller oval-shaped surface at the base. Some people
don’t really know what a&nbs
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Fall TV Season is here and you need a better couch
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Oct 24th 2018
If you’re
looking to stay indoors this Halloween, checking out all of the good stuff
that’s coming to Netflix this fall, and all the Blu-Ray releases currently
being released, then you m
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Designer of the Week - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Oct 22nd 2018
German-born
architect Mies van der Rohe was one of the directors of the influential Bauhaus
school in the years before World War II. He was born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies
and later renamed himself
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