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The women who helped save modern art

The women who helped save modern art

Peggy Guggenheim In London I feel that many of you who enjoy what we do at A fold of chairs probably share a similar taste in art and design to...

The women who helped save modern art

Peggy Guggenheim In London I feel that many of you who enjoy what we do at A fold of chairs probably share a similar taste in art and design to...

The Fibreglass Shell Chair - An Important Moment In Furniture Design

The Fibreglass Shell Chair - An Important Momen...

There are few chairs as immediately recognisable as the Eames shell chair. Its shape is so familiar now that it is easy to forget how radical it was when Charles...

The Fibreglass Shell Chair - An Important Momen...

There are few chairs as immediately recognisable as the Eames shell chair. Its shape is so familiar now that it is easy to forget how radical it was when Charles...

The Friendship at the Heart of Modern Studio Pottery

The Friendship at the Heart of Modern Studio Po...

Leach & Hamada  The Beauty in Everyday Objects Hamada, Leach and a medieval jug, Japan, 1971 There is something about the Potters Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada that I find...

The Friendship at the Heart of Modern Studio Po...

Leach & Hamada  The Beauty in Everyday Objects Hamada, Leach and a medieval jug, Japan, 1971 There is something about the Potters Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada that I find...

In Conversation with Albert Wolstenholme

In Conversation with Albert Wolstenholme

Every summer, 'New Designers' brings together some of the UK’s most promising graduating designers, giving them the opportunity to exhibit their final projects before stepping into professional practice. It’s a...

In Conversation with Albert Wolstenholme

Every summer, 'New Designers' brings together some of the UK’s most promising graduating designers, giving them the opportunity to exhibit their final projects before stepping into professional practice. It’s a...

A Fold of Chairs | At Home With Scott Batty

A Fold of Chairs | At Home With Scott Batty

Scott, An Architect from st Albans, first came to us as a customer, but over time conversations about furniture gradually became conversations about architecture, sustainability and the way we choose...

A Fold of Chairs | At Home With Scott Batty

Scott, An Architect from st Albans, first came to us as a customer, but over time conversations about furniture gradually became conversations about architecture, sustainability and the way we choose...

Harry Bertoia & Gunnar Aagaard Andersen in collaboration at A fold of chairs

Harry Bertoia & Gunnar Aagaard Andersen in coll...

The latest chair to be added to our collection is Harry Bertoia’s iconic Bird Chair for Knoll, designed in 1952, upholstered in an extraordinary graphic textile by Gunnar Aagaard Andersen....

Harry Bertoia & Gunnar Aagaard Andersen in coll...

The latest chair to be added to our collection is Harry Bertoia’s iconic Bird Chair for Knoll, designed in 1952, upholstered in an extraordinary graphic textile by Gunnar Aagaard Andersen....