The 25 Most Defining Pieces Of Furniture From The Last 100 Years

Credit... Clockwise, from top left: Valentin Jeck; courtesy of Bukowskis; courtesy of Zanotta SpA - Italy; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh/Art Resource, NY © ARS, NY; Ellen McDermott © Smithsonian Institution; Herman Miller Archives; Vitra

By Nick Haramis , Max Berlinger , Rose Courteau , Kate Guadagnino , Max Lakin and Evan Moffitt

The goal was to land on a wide range of offerings, but there were parameters: To qualify, each piece was required to have been fabricated, even if just as a prototype, within the past 100 years. It also needed to be at least slightly functional. (The Japanese architect Oki Sato's 2007 Cabbage chair , a treatise on sustainability constructed entirely from a roll of disused paper, isn't the sturdiest place to sit; nonetheless, it was nominated.)

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