Design classic
Some industrial designs are viewed as classic pieces of design that can be regarded as much as works of art as pieces of engineering. This is a list of designs that are regarded as having reached this classic status.
- 1859: The No. 14 chair by Michael Thonet
- 1903: The Hill House ladder back chair by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- 1916: The glass Coca-Cola bottle by Root Glass Company of Terre Haute, Indiana
- 1917: The Red and blue chair by Gerrit Rietveld
- 1925: The Wassily Chair No B3 by Marcel Breuer
- 1929: The Barcelona chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- 1935: The Volkswagen by Erwin Komenda
- 1938: The 20th Century Limited train by Henry Dreyfuss
- 1948: The Porsche 356 by Erwin Komenda
- 1950: The Bic biro
- 1955: Arne Jacobsen's Chair 3107
- 1955: The Citroën DS "Goddess"
- 1959: The Cadillac Eldorado by Harley Earl
- 1961: The IBM Selectric typewriter
- 1963: The Porsche 911
- 1967: The Panton chair by Verner Panton
- 1994: The Aeron chair
- 1998: The iMac by Jonathan Ive and Apple's Industrial Design Group
- 2001: The iPod by Apple Computer
See also
External links
- http://www.idsa.org/whatsnew/decadegallery/decade_main.html
- http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/bottle.asp