Design dining chairs: the market, from the Series 7 to the Wishbone

A table asks for four to eight chairs: this is where the price multiplies. Here is where it stands in 2026, from the monuments to the rush-seated chairs, in wide ranges. Several of these icons have had their Scan; we won't do them again.

The monuments

Jacobsen's Series 7: between €500 and €700 new at Fritz Hansen, between €150 and €400 period. Wegner's Wishbone: around €800 new, between €300 and €600 vintage. The Cesca: over €1,000 at Knoll, a few hundred under a period Italian licence. The Thonet 14: around €900 new, under €200 second-hand. The Eameses' DSW: around €500 at Vitra, between €500 and €1,500 for a Herman Miller fibreglass shell. Saarinen's Tulip: around €2,000 new, between €800 and €1,500 vintage. Prouvé's Standard: around €1,500 at Vitra, tens of thousands period.

The contemporaries already sought-after

Hay's About A Chair (2010) resells for between €80 and €150 a unit, Muuto's Fiber a little above. Mattiazzi's wooden chairs, between €500 and €900 new, hold their price second-hand.

Where the market still breathes

The rush-seated chairs, a few dozen euros, the ones Perriand herself set around her tables. School chairs, the Mullca 510 first among them, between €30 and €80. Baumann bistro chairs, between €50 and €120. A set of six mismatched chairs costs less than a single Tulip and tells more.

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