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
• 1948: The Porsche 356 by Erwin Komenda
• 1950s and later: Tupperware
• 1955: Arne Jacobsen's Chair 3107
• 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 team