World Classic Chairs -Famous Classic Chair Designs - They have Changed the global trend-part 1

2025-04-18

World Classic Chairs -35 Classic Chair Designs - They have Changed the global trend！

The chair is the most fundamental household item for human beings. Ordinary yet extraordinary, it is beloved and repeatedly designed by countless masters. Chairs rich in humanistic values have become an important symbol of the transformation of design styles and technological development. By savoring these classic chairs, we can see through the design history of the past more than one hundred years. A chair is not merely a symbol of a story; it is also a representation of The Times.

01 红蓝椅/Rood blauwe stoel

Design time: 1918

Designer: Gerrit Rietveld

The Rood blauwe stoel chair was designed by the Dutch designer Harriet Rittfeld in 1918 and was a three-dimensional representative work in the initial period of the Dutch De Stijl movement. Later, it was presented as a gift by the American architectural master Philip Johnson to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA, which presented it as a permanent exhibition. By neoplasticism aesthetics by graphic art extended to stereo space, makes the red and blue chair is highly cubism symbol characteristics, more like a different kind of expression, extremely individualistic.

02 瓦西里椅/Wassily Chair

Design time: 1925

Designer: Marcel Lajos Breue

The designer, Breue, was a student of the Bauhaus. The Vasily chair was an avant-garde design born under the influence of modernist thought at that time. It was the world's first steel pipe leather chair and was once called the symbol of steel pipe chairs in the 20th century, pioneering the way of modern furniture.

03 柯布西耶躺椅/Chaise Longue Chair

Design time: 1928

Designer: Le Corbusier

The Le Corbusier lounge chair, jointly designed by the renowned architectural masters Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret. This is a work of epoch-making significance. It is equally firm and flexible, ingeniously combining two different materials, stainless steel and leather. The reasonable structure makes the entire chair design ergonomic. When you lie on it, every point on your back can fit tightly with the chair and get perfect support. Therefore, it is also called a "comfortable machine".