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Walnut armchair

Maurice Dufrène: club chair

Barcelona chair and stool

Brewster armchair, ash, American, about 1660–80; in Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Horseshoe armchair

Philippe Starck: Costes chair

Hear about the Bauhaus art school that existed in Germany and its most iconic design the cantilevered chair by Breuer

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The Diamond chair designed by Harry Bertoia, 1952

Harry Bertoia

American artist

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Marcel Breuer

Hungarian architect

Arne Jacobsen, 1960

Arne Jacobsen

Danish architect