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We’ve been selling the Eames Lounge chair from day one of setting up Iconic Interiors. This equates to 8 years experience of this classic chair. It’s been quite a journey. As mentioned throughout our site Iconic Interiors is about the best quality furniture.
We do not differentiate between licensed pieces or reproduction - we prefer to build our reputation on selling the best. This is why we have now moved the manufacturing of these chairs over to our Italian factory. The quality is simply the best we have found. To demonstrate this I have had the Eames Lounge chair photographed today in our studio.
Keep reading Eames Lounge Chair
A customer emailed me the other day with a photograph of the PK 22 chair in a very distressed brown leather. The chair looked very aged and oozed character. Even though we do not, as yet, offer such a finish for the PK22 chair I’ve decided to use this as my latest in-house project.
Keep reading PK22 in distressed antique leather
We have received a number of new pieces today from our Italian factory. Very exciting. I’ve just posted up my thoughts on the LC1 Sling Chair. Next box to open is the Brno chair with a tubular frame designed by Mies Van Der Rohe. We’ve sold the flat frame chair for a number of years now and have been keen to add its tubular sibling.
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It’s Tuesday 11am 14th May and I’m sat behind my desk working through Iconic’s emails. The doorbell rings. I wonder who that could be. It happens to be a delivery driver. He has a number of parcels from our Italian factory. Fantastic. These parcels are just some of the new pieces we are adding to the range this month. The first box I open is the LC1 sling chair by Le Corbusier.
Keep reading LC1 Sling Chair by Le Corbusier
We seem to be very popular in Austria at the moment. Last month we received lovely feedback from Markus Handle and a collection of photographs of our furniture in situ in his surgery. They looked fantastic. This weekend we received lovely comments from Armin Schleicher.
Keep reading We’re very popular in Austria
Markus Handle (Cosmetic Surgeon) www.markushandle.at based in Innsbruck, Austria. He approached Iconic Interiors a few months ago requiring a number of iconic furniture pieces for his new practice. Markus, like many customers, needed assurance our furniture was of a high quality. Over the following weeks we discussed his ideas and began to understand his vision. This was to be his first practice and he was very keen to get everything just right.
Keep reading Happy customer in Austria
It was three years ago when I was struck by the idea of recreating one of the very early Barcelona chairs. My inspiration came from seeing a photograph of an early chair which had sold at auction in Amsterdam for £56,000 in 1989! I have placed the photograph in this piece. The chair looks incredible.
Even though it was my love for the Barcelona chair which gave me the idea for setting up Iconic Interiors I have always thought the modern chairs look too clean and perfect. Don’t misunderstand me, the chair is a wonderful design. Truly worth its iconic status. How can a chair designed in 1929 look as modern now as it ever has done? Simple, it is a beautiful design transcending time and changing trends.
Keep reading Barcelona chair made in EnglandThe Bauhaus-style Barcelona chair is a beautiful, and award winning, piece of furniture; an absolute design classic. After numerous requests from our customers for the Barcelona chair in blue, I’m happy to announce that we can now supply this iconic chair in a sumptuous blue leather finish!
Keep reading Blue Leather Barcelona ChairI’m very excited to announce a new range of furniture to Iconic Interior’s growing range! Flux is an innovative Dutch company that creates amazingly innovative design pieces and as I’m always on the hunt for exciting new furniture designs, I’m absolutely delighted to be able to offer their fantastic creations.
Keep reading The Flux chair arrives
Furniture design doesn’t get more iconic than the Chesterfield sofa. This low backed sofa with its deep-buttoned arms and back is instantly recognisable and design-wise, has stood the test of time; a true vintage British classic. The Chesterfield is a personal favourite of mine, I just love the simple, elegant design and as such, I’ve been very keen to introduce this beautiful piece to our product line for some time now. I feel it’s a natural fit for our range of iconic furniture and after searching extensively,
Keep reading Introducing our Chesterfield Sofas
We receive a number of emails each week from customers saying how happy they are with our furniture. From time to time I feel it is necessary to put the comments into the News section if the feedback is extraordinary - which it is in this case with Bernhard of Austria. He received an Eames Lounger from us last week. He had been deliberating for a good few months whether to buy one from Iconic Interiors - bearing in mind he was in Austria.
Keep reading Happy Eames Lounger Customer in AustriaI think today is a record. I have received a number of glowing testimonials in my inbox. It’s certainly made my day. I have placed a few of them below.
“Hi Mark, The Lobby chair arrived safely – it’s great! I’m sitting in it now. Thanks a lot.” Ian Mcgroarty, London
“Hi Mark. Just to let you know that we have received the barcelona chair and the swan chair today and that we are very satisfied with the quality! They convince us about your skills and it will definitely encourage us to buy more from you in the future! In the mean time we are looking forward to receive the Barcelona ottoman. Btw: my wife is interested in the books of Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Charles & Ray Eames and Saarinen. Could these be sent together with the Ottoman? Best regards and keep up the good work!” Peter Tack, Belgium
Keep reading I must be doing something right!
It’s always exciting when we have items upholstered with a fabric we’ve never used before, especially so when it’s a new leather. A London-based customer was recently interested in one of our beautiful Eames Lobby chairs and pondered for some time over the leather choice, eventually plumping for Newcastle Tan, a lovely brown, aged leather that we have not yet had the pleasure of working with. Instinct told me however that it was going to look fantastic, and I had the pleasure yesterday of picking it up from the upholsterers.
Keep reading Just had to snap away when I saw this new leather on our Eames Lobby chair
As all those in the creative field will know, inspiration is never far away. The latest addition to our Eames Lounger collection reflects just this – a cream corduroy upholstered Eames chair inspired from an episode of House with Hugh Laurie! I saw the episode some weeks ago and noticed how wonderfully comfortable the jumbo padding looked, whilst the corduroy material provided the alternative approach that caught my eye, something we are always on the lookout for at Iconic.
Keep reading Eames Lounger in jumbo corduroy inspired by Hugh Laurie’s HouseOver the eight years I have been running Iconic Interiors, one thing that has amazed me is how the quality of the reproductions I come across seems to get better and better. Each year they seem to get closer to the real thing, and I see it as crucial to our development, as well as being a personal endeavour, to ensure that we are constantly searching for the best products from the best factories for our customers.
Keep reading The new Eames style office chairs have arrivedIn the words of Monty Python, now for something completely different. This news item is more of an appeal to ask our customers, visitors and all those with a benevolent streak in them to sponsor me in my attempt at completing the Great North Run this September in aid of the Guide Dogs. I have enjoyed running for a number of years and have decided that I’d like a charity to benefit from my masochistic streak, and the more I learn about the Guide Dogs and the work they do the more I realise just what an amazing organisation they are. Donate here
Keep reading Mark is running the Great North Run 2012 for the Guide Dogs charityThe wait is over – at last I have added a beautiful piece to the dining room collection that I’ve been after for some time! A carefully sourced supplier has produced this wonderful Poul Kjaerholm inspired PK9 ‘Tulip’ Dining Chair which I have fallen in love with. From its brushed stainless steel stem to its elegantly curved leather seat, this delightful item is perfect for those who like a sprig or two of sophistication with their dining. Part-chair part-sculpture, this lovely piece is deceptively simple in its appearance, for Kjærholm was well-known for combining art with technical brilliance and used complex design methods to create furniture that appears minimal and simple, but is actually a triumph of construction.
Keep reading Introducing the PK9 Dining ChairOur upholsterers mentioned a few weeks ago they had been working on our Eames Lobby chairs now for two years. How time flies. It was June 1st 2010 when we approached them with the idea of having the chair upholstered here in East Yorkshire. To celebrate we commissioned the upholsterers to make a funky version of the chair using a mix of vibrant colours.
We chose a mix of vibrant coloured leathers from our store room and popped them down to the upholsterer’s workshop. We had no idea how the finished chair would look. It would either be a complete disaster or a breath of fresh air for this classic chair design.
Keep reading We’re celebrating two years of making the Eames Lobby chair in the UKWe discovered the Old Chestnut leather a few months ago. We are gradually, some would say slowly, adding it to the whole Iconic Interiors furniture range. I placed an order with our supplier for the Eames Lounger upholstered in this exciting leather. I chose the option of rosewood veneer with the traditional black base.
Keep reading A lovely new leather for the Eames Lounger
We have become the proud sponsor of the 1000 Rooms With A View development in Sheffield. The iconic building is one of the largest fragments of Le Corbusier’s Ville Radieuse. In 1998 English Heritage gave the 1000 flat building listed status making it the largest listed building in europe.
Keep reading Proud Sponsor of 1000 Rooms With A View
Last week we sent out two of our ash leather Barcelona chairs to a customer in Geneva, Switzerland. They were very pleased with their two new chairs and in addition to their kind words they sent us these two lovely photographs of the Barcelona chairs gracing their Swiss interior.
Keep reading Happy Customers in SwitzerlandIdeally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all customers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Eames Lobby chair video.
Keep reading Demonstrating our Eames Lobby chair
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all custiomers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Barcelona Chair video.
Keep reading New leathers available for our Barcelona chair
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all customers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Eames Lounger video.
Keep reading Eames Lounger with natural wood veneer
Sometimes we receive such positive feedback that we like to not just add it to the testimonials page but shout from the rooftops, by that I mean add them to these news pages.
Keep reading Barcelona chair welding high praise
So far, fingers crossed, every iconic piece of furniture we have had upholstered in our antique full aniline Italian leather has looked fabulous. The Egg chair is no exception.
Keep reading Egg chair now available in antique leather
We are very excited with our latest in-house project. Some months ago we approached a local woodturner, here in East Yorkshire, and asked him if he’d consider reproducing the ‘Model A’ Eames Stool. I explained to him the complexities of the stool - how each stool is solid walnut and is made up of 25 individual pieces - all fused together to give it it’s beautiful patterning.
Keep reading Walnut Eames Stool Introduction
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all custiomers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Barcelona Day Bed video.
Keep reading Barcelona Day Bed Video
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all custiomers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Eames Lounger video.
Keep reading Eames Lounger with Aluminium Polished Base Video
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all custiomers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Corbusier Corner Sofa video.
Keep reading Corbusier Designer Corner Sofa Video
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all custiomers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Le Petit Confort chair video.
Keep reading LC2 Le Petit Confort chair video
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all custiomers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Le Corbusier chaise longue video.
Keep reading Le Corbusier Chaise Longue Video
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all custiomers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Eames Lounger video.
Keep reading Eames Lounger Video
Ideally we would like all potential customers to visit our showroom. This way they can appreciate the exceptional quality of our furniture. We appreciate this isn’t practical for all custiomers. We have therefore decided to introduce a series of videos describing individual pieces. This we feel is the next best thing to visiting our showroom. Watch the Barcelona chair video.
Keep reading Barcelona Chair Video
We introduced the Eames Lobby chair into our range recently and we are very pleased with how popular the chair has become. This design classic was always going to be popular with our customers but I think what clinches it is the fact it is upholstered and assembled here in Yorkshire, England. Because we have complete control over every aspect of this chair we can maintain an exceptional level of quality. It also allows us to offer such beautiful finishes as our new Chestnut leather.
Keep reading Our Chestnut Eames Lobby chair proves very popular
Our beautiful LC3 Grand Confort Speciale appeared in last Saturday’s Daily Telegraph. Sumptuous, decadent and iconic are some of the words that come to mind when describing this LC3 Le Grand Confort Speciale armchair………
Keep reading The Daily Telegraph features our Grand Confort Speciale
I’ve just photographed our new offering, the elegant Noguchi dining table from designer Isamu Noguchi. I was keen to upload the lovely photographs as soon as I could.
Keep reading Introducing the Noguchi Dining Table
We like to encourage our happy customers to send us their photographs showing our furniture gracing their homes. Jan of Rotterdam has bought a number of design classic furniture pieces from us this past year.
Keep reading Furniture Happiness in Holland
I couldn’t resist photographing the Eames Lobby chair this afternoon. I was pottering in the warehouse and I noticed how beautiful the black full aniline leather looked on the Lobby chair. I wondered if I could capture the leather sheen. Before long I had my camera poised at the ready.
Keep reading Black Eames Lobby Chair
It has arrived - our very own Eames inspired walnut stool sample. A few months ago I had the idea to have the Eames stool reproduced here in Yorkshire. The stool is such an interesting piece of furniture. I arranged to meet up with a number of woodturners to discuss the possibility of having it made here in the UK.
Keep reading Project - Eames Stool in Walnut
A marriage made in heaven! That’s what it feels like when you see our new Antique leather covered Eames Lounger. A truly beautiful combination. We’ll be offering this exciting antique leather in the next few days once we have had the chair professionally photographed.
Keep reading Classic Combination: Eames Lounger in our new antique leather
Introducing our new vintage colour full aniline leather. A beautiful pull-up leather which lends itself beautifully to the iconic Barcelona chair.
Keep reading Vintage Barcelona Chair
Happy New Year to all of our customers. We kick off 2011 with the Eames 124 Aluminium lounge chair. This is an absolute beauty! Fresh back from the photographers with a collection of stunning photographs of the chair.
Keep reading Introducing the Eames EA 124 Aluminium chair
It’s December and this month we are introducing four Eames dining chair styles, the DSW, DAR, DSR, DAW. We feel we have found the best quality Eames dining chairs available. Our dining chairs are made from double skinned fibreglass which makes them very sturdy as opposed to the flimsy plastic chairs available in the marketplace.
Keep reading Eames Dining Chairs
Our customers have spoken and we have listened. We are introducing our own version of the Eames Lobby chair with a number of enhancements.
Keep reading Eames Lobby Chair made in England
This week I came across an original Barcelona chair produced by Bamberg Metallwerkstatten Berlin in 1931. This got me thinking. Prior to Knoll having the licence the chair was manufactured by these guys in Berlin. The way the chair has aged is incredible. I decided to set myself a challenge…….
Keep reading A pre Knoll Barcelona chair challenge
This month we are thrilled to announce the arrival of the Eames Lounger with a polished aluminium base. Customers have been enquiring about this alternative to the classic design look for a while now. Never accuse us of not listening to our customers! The chair is fresh back from the photographers. Here I have included photographs of our latest addition to the Eames Lounger range.
Keep reading The Eames Lounger with polished aluminium base
We are pleased to announce the launch of our first Buyers Guide. This is the first in a series we plan to release over the coming months. Our first guide is designed to help you with purchasing a reproduction Barcelona chair. To receive the guide please email your request to: mark@iconicinteriors.com.
Keep reading Barcelona Chair Buyers Guide
The popular lifestyle magazine Good Housekeeping has hit the shelves with a wonderful full page spread on our Swan chair.
Keep reading Iconic Interiors in Good Housekeeping
Kristof of Belgium has bought a number of furniture pieces from us in the past. These include the Barcelona sofa, ottoman, Eames Lounger and ottoman and most recently the Eames Lobby chair. He’s so pleased with his setup that he was kind enough to send through some excellent photographs of his appartment. I must say his appartment looks fantastic!
Keep reading Furniture Happiness in BelgiumWe understand how you, the customer, is faced with a myriad of prices and choices when buying a Barcelona chair. It’s quite simply a minefield! We know this only too well because we talk to countless customers like you every week. Here we give you the low-down on how to spot the overnight opportunists over established companies who understand the furniture inside and out.
Keep reading Barcelona Chair Minefield
We spent our May Bank Holiday visiting the Design Weekend at Tatton Park in search of inspiration. We were not disappointed. Mark gets talking to furniture designer Darren Dent.
Keep reading The Design Weekend Tatton Park
Johan is a very happy customer indeed. He has just received his Eames ea217 and he’s so happy with it he has sent through a lovely photograph of the chair in situ - nicely juxtaposed with his pet cat (every office should have one!)
Keep reading Eames ea217 office chair happiness
At Iconic Interiors we love finding stylish new leathers for our customers, so when I discovered the Eames Lounger was available in new, stylish shades of brown on a recent trip to our high-end furniture supplier, I knew right away we needed to consider these colours for the Iconic collection.
Keep reading Eames lounge chair brown leather
Gro-Hege and Steinar were so happy with our furniture they kindly emailed their kind words and photographs of their truly iconic interior. It really makes running Iconic Interiors a pleasure when we receive such positive feedback.
Keep reading Modern classic furniture happiness in Scandinavia
We are delighted to add the Eames Lobby chair to our exclusive range. I first saw the design a few years ago and instantly fell in love with it - every angle, every sumptuous curve, coming as close to pornography as photos of furniture can come - we are very pleased to finally be able to offer you this classic executive lobby chair. Available in a variety of leathers on a fixed base or with gas lift/tilt function on castors.
Keep reading Eames Lobby Chairs
We are always adding to our range of excellent designer furniture. This month sees the addition of the Aluminium Group of Eames office and desk chairs. The range includes high back executive chairs (ea119 high back executive office chair, ea216 soft pad high back and the ea219 soft pad high back on castors), desk chairs such as the ea217 soft pad low back and the very eye catching ea108 Aluminium office chair. All chairs are available in a number of different finishes, with or without castors or arms.
Keep reading Designer Office Chairs
We receive positive feedback from customers all of the time. Every so often the feedback is so positive that we feel it shouldn’t just reside on the testimonials page - we should make a song and dance about it.
Keep reading Our Barcelona chair as good as the original - it’s official!
As you have no doubt guessed from our web site, we love well designed furniture - especially furniture which has become iconic. Designed in 1962, the Club range by Robin Day is one such range. I was keen to have the furniture photographed at the earliest opportunity.
Keep reading Robin Day Furniture
Here at Iconic Interiors we are constantly on the look for wonderful leathers for our furniture pieces. Today we received a sample of our Barcelona chair in a beautiful brown we had discovered. We had found the beautiful vintage brown leather from one of our many leather suppliers. We decided to have a few hides shipped to our factory.
Keep reading Vintage Brown Barcelona chairA local business has received a boost, thanks to 1960s supermodel, Twiggy. The style icon swings in a Bubble Chair on the cover of Good Housekeeping magazine this month – a classic piece of 1960s furniture provided for the photo-shoot by none other than Yorkshire-based company, Iconic Interiors.
Keep reading Iconic Interiors News, August 2009: For Immediate Release
When Twiggy agreed to be Good House Keeping magazine’s cover feature, GHK needed ultra-stylish retro furniture for the face of sixties fashion. So they came to us. And we were happy to supply them with the ultimate retro style piece: the Bubble Chair.
Keep reading Style News: Good Housekeeping magazine blown away by our Bubble Chair
We have a passion for supplying high quality iconic pieces of furniture. So it is very pleasing to receive such positive feedback from customers. Here you can read one very happy customer’s experience when purchasing one of our lovely Barcelona chairs.
Keep reading Barcelona chair customer happiness
It’s not everyday a top celebrity is photographed in one of our chairs and appears on the front cover of UK’s most popular housekeeping magazine.
Keep reading A Bubble chair, a Twiggy and a national magazine
We have moved! We now have a much bigger and better warehouse. The best part is that we now have a fantastic showroom available. You can now see the Eames Lounger, Barcelona chair, the George Nelson Marshmallow sofa and many others in the flesh. So what are you waiting for? Contact us now and book your viewing!
Keep reading New WarehouseMany of our customers ask how best to take care of their iconic furniture. We thought it best therefore to provide our leather care instructions online.
Keep reading Care of your leather furniture
Ever wondered why there is such a range in pricing for Mies Van Der Rohe’s design classic the Barcelona chair? We have put together a concise list of reasons why you shouldn’t buy at the lowest price. You’ll be surprised at what we have to say!
Keep reading 7 reasons not to buy the cheapest Barcelona chairHow would you like your Bubble chair cushions? Now that we work closely with an upholsterer we can offer the cushions in any finish which takes your fancy.
Keep reading The Bubble chair available in many new options, even duck down filled cushions!
Today we had an advert in the Independent’s New Review magazine entitled 7 reasons why Architects and Interior Designers buy our designer furniture. We couldn’t ask for better clients. So why do these professionals keep purchasing our modern classics?
Keep reading 7 reasons why Architects and Interior Designers buy our modern furniture
From time to time we find new suppliers who manufacturer the classics to even higher levels of quality. This month we take stock of our first new batch of the Corbusier chaise longues.
Keep reading Our new Le Corbusier chaise longue oozes quality
This week Iconic Interiors has taken delivery of a number of dark brown (or espresso if you prefer) Barcelona chairs. Sad as it may sound I get rather excited when a new colour is added to the collection.
Keep reading The dark brown Barcelona chair touches down – I love it!
We were delighted then to have Rebecca Rickles contact us requesting the use of our Eero Aarnio Ball chair for a day’s shooting. Rebecca is currently studying photography at the Humberside University.
Keep reading A photography student captures the sixties era with our Eero Aarnio Ball ChairAt Iconic Interiors we are committed to bringing you the cream of modern designer furniture. The design of every item we supply has stood the test of time, looking as fresh and contemporary today as the day it was first conceived. Also visit our sister site at: Modern Classic Bauhaus Furniture
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