Retro furniture design classics

We look at some of the retro furniture design classics that inspired designers in the 50s and 60s to create great modern looking furniture.

Egg Chair, 1958

Arne Jacobsen's famous Egg Chair from 1958 started a fashion for stylish swivel chairs in leather and vinyl in the home and in the board room.

Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair

Barcelona Chair, 1929

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 1929 classic influenced furniture design 30 or 40 years later. It became a symbol of modernist good taste.

The buttoned design influenced G-Plan furniture as well as many 60s bars and the interior of the Ford Zodiac Executive.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair