The furniture we enjoy today has been inspired by a host of influences, but a number of designers have had a particularly profound influence on the stuff we surround ourselves with.
For a comprehensive look at the great furniture designers try Serial Designs great ABC of design or this excellent furniture designers link, with comprehensive information on pretty much anybody who ever designed anything you even thought about sitting on.
If the work of the great designers inspires you please note we offer a small collection of high quality reproduction 'design classics'.
For a lightning look at the great designers dip into our own Designer Digest - if nothing else you can impress whoever you manage to seduce onto your sofa with a quick precis of the design influences that produced it - always a winner with a new partner we've found!
We wouldn't pretend to offer anything like an exhaustive list of the great designers but we've tried to offer a few nuggets about some of the most influential.
For a short designer tour try the select few featured right here. It's a bit 'schooly' but there's some decent biographical information on a selection of the design masters.
