Marcel Breuer & Marcel Bouvier, Wassily Chair, 1925 Armchair manufactured by Thonet, a German-Austrian company. Its bent steel tube frame, inspired by bicycles construction, and taut Eisengarn fabric revolutionized the furniture industry because of their materials, manufacturing process and aesthetics.

Eileen Gray, Bibendum, 1926 Tubular steel and leather armchair, inspired by the “Bibendum” Michelin Man and presented as a playful “feminist” response to Le Corbusier’s Grand Confort armchair.

Marcel Breuer, Cesca Chair, 1928 Breuer chose again the tubular steel bending technology used in bicycles, in order to achieve standardization and mass production. It was combined with wooven cane and beech wood and became one of the most common chairs of the XXth century.

Lilly Reich & Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Barcelona Chair, 1929 Designed for the German Pavillion at the International Exposition of 1929 (Mies Van Der Rohe; Barcelona, Spain; 1929) for the Spanish royalty to oversee the ceremony.

Alvar Aalto, Chair 69, 1935 The chair resulted from experiments with solid bent wood which helped create the L-shape, seen on the legs of the chair and applied to a series of other pieces of the same collection. The chair’s structure is made of solid Finnish birch.

Antoni Bonet & Juan Kurchan & Jorge Ferrari Hardoy, BKF Chair, 1938 A chair consisting of thin folded iron bars and a leather seat, which allows for various relaxed sitting position. The chair became an icon of Argentine design.