The Design Museum Brussels presents, from 26 March to 29 August 2021, the exhibition ‘Chaise. Stoel. Chair. Defining Design’. This exhibition uses the chair to question the world of design from the late nineteenth century until today.

The chair, which the world of design has seized upon to explore its functions and shapes as well as the messages it conveys, will be at the centre of this exhibition. From Gerrit Rietveld’s famous Red and Blue Chair to Joe Colombo’s Tube Chair, from Marcel Breuer’s Wassily to Konstantin Grcic’s CUP, designers have constantly reinvented and redefined the chair, questioning the cultural, technical, historical and social baggage it suggests. ‘Chaise. Stoel. Chair. Defining Design’ employs this everyday object to question design and its evolutions, developments and adaptations over the last century. Visitors will be able to discover 100 chairs representative of design’s evolutions.