PurplePrice Mag

Design archive

A resource for design lovers

An archive of design history: the designers, movements and companies that shaped industrial design, with their most famous objects.

Projects

In drawn, anodised and knurled aluminium

Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Flos, 1962: a pendant lamp that needs no ceiling

Gatti, Paolini and Teodoro, Zanotta, 1968: the shapeless armchair that takes the shape of whoever sits in it

Verner Panton, Vitra, 1960s: the first plastic chair made in a single piece

Marcel Breuer, Bauhaus, 1925–1926: the armchair born from a bicycle

Philippe Starck, Alessi, 1990: the citrus squeezer born from a plate of squid

Charles and Ray Eames, Herman Miller, 1956: the club chair remade in moulded plywood and leather

Richard Sapper, Artemide, 1972: the counterweighted drafting lamp, without wires, with halogen light

Ettore Sottsass with Perry King, Olivetti, 1969: the “red portable” that wanted to be a ballpoint pen