20th and 21st century design with a focus on collectable and highly curated design furniture from the space age, modernist, brutalist, bauhaus and minimalist movement.

Frame numbers, engravings, first owners

A Cassina LC armchair carries the maker's engraving and a frame number, and Redesignable reads both before buying. That habit shapes the whole selection: 20th and 21st century furniture with a documented edition, much of it bought from the people who ordered it new. The dealer's range is stated plainly, space age, modernist, brutalist, Bauhaus and minimalist, and most of the pieces at The Oblist come out of Italian, French and German production between the 1960s and the 1990s. What ties them together is less a style than a standard of proof.

The LC1 Ponyskin Armchairs of the 1980s and 1990s set the tone: hide in dark brown and cream, or blue and black, stretched on polished chrome tube. LC2 armchairs follow in black leather, and the early production LC2 three-seater of the 1970s wears cognac leather. The LC3 Down Cushions sofa and armchairs are upholstered in graphite Y Extra leather over goose-feather filling. The LC4 chaise longue appears twice, in ponyskin and in the 2013 Louis Vuitton edition in saddle leather. Beyond the Le Corbusier, Jeanneret and Perriand programme: a Barcelona MR90 lounge chair by Mies van der Rohe for Knoll, Afra and Tobia Scarpa's Bastiano sofa in rosewood and leather, Mario Bellini's Duc sofa in camel leather, and a Refolo Tokyo bench by Charlotte Perriand. The Oblist files them with its vintage armchairs and vintage sofas.

Maison Lancel, France, 1980s: the burl wood coffee table with bar hides a drinks compartment behind lacquered burl and mirrored glass. A second Lancel table adds brass trim; a French two-tier table in burl slides open on the same principle. Redesignable sets these against two low tables that refuse ornament altogether. The T112 by Horst Brüning for Kill International is polished steel under a glass top one centimetre thick. The KW1 by Hank Kwint for Metaform rests glass on a granite block. One lamp closes the group, the Chimera floor lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, a column of opal methacrylate. The burl pieces join the gallery's burl wood coffee tables.

Every Redesignable listing on The Oblist states edition, period, condition and provenance. Interior designers and architects assembling a set of LC seating or sourcing a single table for a residential, hospitality or office project can work through the Trade Program, which handles availability and multi-piece orders.