From heritage to avant-garde: our all-time fav furniture brands

Aluminium Chair EA 119 by vitra

What actually is good design? An explosive question that designers and manufacturers wrestle over just as much as buyers and critics, and which is often only answered in retrospect. In this best-of list, we present 48 top furniture brands that have managed to become design classics through quality and originality. We cover the period from 1920 to the present day and, for the first time, also highlight the classics of the new millennium.

The list is loosely based on Silke Pfersdorf’s book “101 Design Classics”, published by teNeues in 2022.