The Poliform Dama table or stool is the perfect anywhere surface. Its cylindrical base tapers inwardly as it approaches the top - akin to being "cinched," it cants sharply outward to define the top. The Dama table's slightly concave surface makes it comfortable for use a stool yet it can also do double duty as an impromptu table. ...

Groundpiece sectional, Antonio Citterio, Flexform, 2001. Since its introduction, Groundpiece has been one of Flexform's most popular seating systems. Many of the European brands that Switch Modern represents use tailor-made upholstery covers that are cleverly affixed to the upholstered form's structure and cushions. Several sofas, sectionals, beds, and lounge chairs from a range of manufacturers - Bensen, Flexform, Giorgetti...

Lanterns have been a portable light source since their use in antiquity. The function was simply to provide a barrier around a light source - often a flame - protecting it from the elements. These were available in a range of shapes and before the use of glass for the panes, often animal horn flattened into thin slices was used...

Venice console, Claudio Bellini, Riva 1920, Italy, 2011; composed of briccole (Venetian oak pylons) and polished stainless steel. Briccole are cylindrical oak wood pylons that are staked into the Venice lagoon that are used as guideposts to reveal the waterways and tides for vessels. The average life for each briccola is 10 to 20 years after which they need to...

An impromptu exhibition of various Santa & Cole lighting designs - table, floor, and suspension lamps representing both classics and recently introduced pieces - was installed in anticipation of Switch Modern's Spotlight on Design event at our Atlanta showroom on June 1. Roy Otwell (center), Co-Owner, Switch Modern, enjoys a laugh and greets the group from Santa & Cole...

In honor or the 50th anniversary of the Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni's iconic Snoopy lamp, Flos has created a special edition with a matte black finish shade in an edition of 1700 examples. The designers were inspired by the Peanuts character for their Snoopy table lamp. Like the limited edition, the actual example of the original version from 1967 preserved...

Switch Modern is delighted to be a sponsor and lender to Museum of Design Atlanta's (MODA) new exhibition, Please Be Seated. This exhibition loosely explores seating design over the past 100+ years with designs by Josef Hoffmann and Eileen Gray from the early 20th century through design in the first quarter of the 21st century including work by Jean-Marie Massaud, Lina Obregon, and Andres Reisinger and Julia Esque.

As part of celebrating its 20th anniversary in October 2022, we thought that it would be fun to share a select group of brands, objects, and moments over the past twenty years that have punctuated Switch Modern's history - from a single brand in 2002 to now over 70 brands representing hundreds of award-winning designers.

The Tatu lamp was designed by Andre Ricard in 1972 and originally produced by Metalarte, Spain. We are delighted to report that Santa & Cole has reissued this fabulous award-winning design - an engaging piece that resembles a periscope allowing the user to twist sections of the lamp in order to direct the emitted light. The original Tatu lamp featured...

A fabulous installation of Mirror Ball suspension lights in the chrome finish - available in three diameters - these look amazing when clustered. As Tom Dixon points out, "Sometimes your biggest failure could be your biggest success. The aim was to produce a completely spherical, highly mirrored object that would disappear into its surroundings. Instead it does the opposite and...

After decades of production through Italy's Cappellini, Tom Dixon's iconic Pylon chair design from the early 1990s is now available through the designer's namesake UK firm. In fact, the Pylon chair is even being fabricated by the skilled metalworker who was originally taught to weld by Dixon himself. Dixon's impetus for the Pylon chair was to design the world's lightest...

Tom Dixon's Screw table is an extraordinary design! Underscored by an industrial aesthetic, the Screw table illustrates the designer's absolute mastery at mixing media in unexpected and engaging ways. Screw features a cast iron base expressed as a tripod of trapezoid-shaped "fins" - these are fabulously reminiscent of Jean Prouvé's work in lacquered pressed steel in the mid 20th century...

Tom Dixon's Melt Light is an extraordinary series of distorted spherical lights that are half-metallized to create an incredible optical effect that casts an ethereal luminosity within any interior that they are placed. Melt was the result of a 2014 collaboration between Dixon and the Swedish design collective, Front, experimenting in the technologically advanced fields of blow molding and vacuum...

Swedish design collective, Front, metaphorically "blew us away" with their Blow Away vase for Moooi, Netherlands, that expertly marries the centuries old tradition of Delftware (white and blue tin-glazed Dutch earthenware) with 21st century technology to enable its remarkable form. Front approached its Blow Away design by converting the physical form...

On the occasion of the Sacco chair's 40th anniversary in 2008, Zanotta interviewed co-designer, Piero Gatti, who provided some wonderful information about history of the chair's development that Switch Modern is eager to share. The Sacco lounge chair is part of the permanent collections of a staggering 27 museums worldwide including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris; Museo del Design, Milan; Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; Design Museum, Gent; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney; and Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.