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The Molded Plastic Dowel-Leg Chair. View source .   Wow, this year is moving fast! Now we have embraced March and 2014 is looking to be a good year, we are working on some really interesting projects. The month of March on our very lovely Pickle Design calendar showcases a chair by husband and wife team Charles and Ray Eames. The rather does-what-it-says-on-the-tin name it has, is Molded Plastic Dowel-Leg Chair. Despite having an ugly duckling name, this 1950s chair has become a design classic due its simple and beautiful design. Eames Chair Design. View source . The designers never saw their furniture as finished, constantly updating when new materials and techniques came available. Charles and Ray Eames saw their legacy as “getting the most of the best to the greatest number of people for the least” - quite a mission statement! Their designs have stood the test of time and still look very contemporary in chic modern interiors. You can download March’s calendar f...

The Y Chair by Hans J. Wegner. Image found here . We find ourselves in February, and on the 2014 Pickle Design calendar we are showcasing the Y chair. Download a desktop version of the February calendar here . At Pickle we love looking at all areas of design for daily inspiration. We use Facebook , Pinterest , Twitter , Tumblr to drench ourselves in creativity, but there really is something quite special about chair design. Not only does a seat need to be comfortable (trust us, we sit in one all day!) but a well designed chair can make a statement about the designer themselves, the home owner, or society at large. Hans J. Wegner created this chair in 1950, basing the design on traditional Dutch paintings of merchants sitting in Ming chairs. Wegner was a perfectionist. Stylistically there wasn’t necessarily a common thread between his designs, it was more his ethos that shone through, he said "the good chair is a task one is never completely done with", it was "...

2014 is here! We like to start as we mean to go on, with good design, so we have a little present for you. You may have seen our new calendar showcasing classic chair design, well, we thought we would make each month available for you to download for free. Now you can have a sleek calendar for your computer desktop. January depicts the Tulip chair designed in the 1950s by Eero Saarinen. A version of this chair was used in the original Star Trek series but slightly altered. One of the Tulip chairs from Enterprise’s bridge once sold for $18,000! To download yours, visit our website here . Each month we will post a link so you can download the next one. Enjoy! Emma Julian.