This document provides descriptions of interesting and unique furniture pieces designed by various architects and designers. It summarizes 14 pieces including Vladimir Kagan's serpentine sofa, Frank Gehry's Wiggle Chair, Angelo Mangiarotti's Eros side table, Isamu Noguchi's Akari lanterns, Oscar Niemeyer's Rio Lounge Chair, Maya Lin's Longitude Chaise, Vico Magistretti's Atollo table lamp, Walter Gropius' F 51 sofa, Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair, Pawel Grunert's unusual Artful Chair, the Moon arch floor lamp, the hybrid Sunflower Chair bookcase, the unique Being stump lamps, and

1. INTERESTING
FURNITURE PIECES
-BY: KIRTI GARG
-B.VOC.[INTERIOR]
-3RD SEM

2. SERPENTINE SOFA
BY VLADIMIR KAGAN
• The mid-century modern
pieces of Vladimir Kagan
defined the curves of the
era.
• The curves tend to soften
the sharp lines of the
architecture, adding warmth
and personality to the
space.
• His stunning serpentine
sofa is as relevant today as
ever.

3. WIGGLE CHAIR
BY FRANK GEHRY
• The Wiggle Chair by Frank
Gehry is an elegant and
iconic piece of furniture.
• It’s simple, sturdy, yet so
playful in look, and the
experimental nature of
using cardboard—it truly
epitomizes design in
perpetuity.
• It’s also a study on how to
use more environmentally
friendly materials.

4. EROS SIDE TABLE
BY ANGELO MANGIAROTTI
• Angelo Mangiarotti’s Eros
side tables are as good as it
gets.
• It’s just two pieces of stone,
held together by friction
without any fasteners or
attachments—but the way
that the attachment is
detailed makes a very basic
idea into something
whimsical, even sensual.

5. AKARI LANTERNS
BY ISAMU NOGUCHI
• Made with traditional
Japanese craft techniques, the
lanterns are made of a wire
structure and a rice-paper
envelope, which gives them a
beautiful glow of light.
• Perhaps it’s their modesty, low
price, uniformity, and
simplicity that makes it easy
for a designer to integrate
them into almost every
project.

6. RIO LOUNGE CHAIR
BY OSCAR NIEMEYER
• The use of high-quality
materials and advance
techniques made his pieces
iconic right from the beginning
and led to objects that are the
perfect match of sculpture and
design.
• His Rio Lounge Chair is the
perfect example, like living art.
• What I appreciate about
Oscar Niemeyer is that his
background in modernist
architecture gave him a new
approach to furniture design.

7. LONGITUDE CHAISE
BY MAYA LIN
• This is the perfect
decompression sanctuary in
the form of an elevated
chaise.
• The classic form combined
on the platform base gives
the illusion and feel of
levitating off the ground.
• I absolutely love this
vintage style for its
simplicity, sleek lines,
comfort, and illusion of
floating.

8. TABLE LAMP
BY VICO MAGISTRETTI
• The Atollo table lamp
designed by Vico
Magistretti in 1977 is a
modern Italian
masterpiece that endures
the test of time.
• Its clean geometric form
and seemingly floating
cap strike the perfect
proportions.
• I love the ambient mood
of the direct and indirect
lighting.

9. PEACOCK CHAIAR
• Originating in the philippines
and traditionally made from
fast-growing rattan vines, this
thronelike chair has since the
early 19th century been a
favorite of portrait
photographers.
• In the 1960s especially, the
chair was a popular
destination for the tushies of
celebrities of every stripe,
from al green and dolly parton
to john kennedy.

10. SOFA
• Walter gropius was the founder of
the bauhaus school, and that makes
him one of the grandaddies of
modernist furniture.
• He designed the F 51 armchair and
sofa in 1920, specifically for the
director’s office at the bauhaus –
which explains its imposing design.
• Once you’ve stripped away the
generous layers of padding, the F 51
is significant for its cantilevered
frame, meaning the armrests float
above the cushions and the bottom
of the sofa doesn't touch the
ground.
BY WALTER GROPIUS

11. EGG CHAIR
• The idea behind the egg’s form is
that it should give its user some
privacy while in public spaces.
• And it works, thanks it its high,
cocooning sides.
• It became one of the best-known
chair designs around and is still one
of the most instantly recognizable
pieces from the period.
BY ARNE JACOBSEN

12. TALK CHAIR
• Talk is a really cool chair with
an unusual design.
• The upholstered seat is
circular and extends all the
way down to the floor
forming a cylinder.
• The wooden frame built
around it incorporates four
different-sized rods attached
at the top to a curved
backrest.
• What’s really fun and cool is
that you can place two or
more chairs side by side with
the backrests facing opposite
directions and they’ll link up.

13. GIANT BIRD NEST
• This giant bird’s nest looks
spectacular and is in fact a bed
that you can actually use.
• It’s definitely a statement
piece.
• It was designed by Merav
Salush Eitan and Gaston Zahr
from OGE Group and has a
frame decorated with
pinewood sections that create
a woven pattern, with giant
egg-shaped pillows of
different colors inside.

14. GHOST SIDE TABLE
• This is the Illusion table.
• Its name is very
suggestive, as you can
clearly see.
• The table comes in four
color options: clear (the
one featured here), ice,
gold and silver.
• It looks as if there’s an
invisible table underneath
it and this is actually the
tablecloth that covers it.

15. ARTFUL CHAIR
• There are plenty of very artistic
pieces of furniture out there and
this is one of them.
• This chair was designed by Pawel
Grunert and doesn’t really look
like any other chair we’ve seen
before.
• It’s made from stainless steel and
wicker, it measures 80 cm x 80
cm x 80 cm and weighs 10 kg.
• These specifications alone
suggest a rather unusual design
but nothing can really prepare
you for the actual look of this
piece.

16. ARCHED FLOOR LAMP
• The Moon lamp a very
minimalist and very
sophisticated-looking piece.
• Its sleek and contemporary
design turn it into a very
stylish focal point for
similarly sophisticated
decors.
• It uses an LED strip
embedded into the arch-
shaped brushed steel
structure.
• The base is made of maple
wood.

17. SEATING WITH BOOKCASE
• The Sunflower Chair is an odd piece of furniture. It looks intriguing especially
through the fact that it’s a hybrid, a combination between an armchair and a
bookcase.
• It has an entire array of book storage slots around the seat which form the
frame.
• It doesn’t look particularly comfortable and its practical nature is questionable
as well but just look how cool it seems.

18. STUMP WOOD LOGS WITH LED
LIGHTS
• These are Being lamps.
Each one is unique.
• It’s made of scrap wood
and each log is special and
differs from all the others
not just in size but also in
shape and overall
appearance.
• The more you look at the
lamp the more abstract
and meaningful its design
becomes, with numerous
different interpretations
revealing their meaning.

19. PLANTER AND LAMP
• On the same note, check
out the Brot lamp
designed by Benditas
Studio.
• It’s not just any other
lamp. In fact, it’s not only
a lamp but also a planter.
• When you turn it on it
provides lighting to all the
small plants growing
inside and these become a
part of its design.

20. WALL SHELVES
• Shelves are incredibly
versatile and very
customization so it’s not
really a surprise that there
are some really cool designs
out there.
• One that stands out is this
piece designed by Soheil
Yousefi.
• It’s a set of shelves that
gradually get shorter towards
the bottom, making it look as
if they disappear into the
wall behind them.