Design Icons
——Timeline of Furniture Masterpiece
Introduction
Until the mid-19th century, most chairs were made by hand, but the new industrialists were experimenting with modern production techniques to manufacture high quality furniture swiftly and cheaply in large quantities. Among the most successful was the Austrian manufacturer Michael Thonet who pioneered the mass-production of bentwood furniture By the late 1800s, his simply styled chairs had become the first to be used by both aristocrats and factory workers.
By the turn of the 1990s, the exuberant post-modernist spirit had faded and designers searched for a more purposeful approach to design with greater depth and meaning. Some such as Marc Newson drew on the optimistic 1960s vision of the future. Others, like Jasper Morrison, returned to the origins of the modern movement to revive its attachment to simplicity of form and seriousness of intent.
Technique Progress —Intersection
From email, texting and the internet, to mobile phones PDAs, DVDs, search engines and MP3 files, our daily lives are filed with new tools, systems and networks which would have seemed inconceivable twenty years ago. These new technologies have transformed the way we lead our lives and designers, such as the Bouroullec brothers in France and Hella Jongerius and Jurgen Bey in the Netherlands, have responded by developing new types of furniture.
The panel design visualizes intersection through an RGB system where structure, rhythm, and color overlap.
Red, green, and blue layers reveal the constructive logic of time, material, and form.
The grid acts as an invisible structure—balancing order and variation across the timeline.