An accent chair is just that — an object of furniture that adds an extra element of architectural interest to a room while still retaining its primary function of providing seating. With thousands of ...

How Vari designs furniture that supports movement throughout the workday ...

Ours is a design-conscious age, with furniture as with everything else. Hear names like "Eames," "Barcelona" or even "beanbag," and you probably know that chairs--specifically, famous chairs of the ...

A new exhibition celebrates the “King of Chairs” on the centennial of his birth. “If only you could design just one good chair in your life,” famed Danish designer Hans Wegner was quoted as saying in ...

In a world where everything from shampoo bottles to playground equipment to leggings are made from recycled plastic, it’s hard to believe there was a time when the material wasn’t ubiquitous. But when ...

A pair of iconic Barcelona Chairs, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe around 1929, at the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Canada. Courtesy of jmv/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design ...

“It’s my intent to make design a more consequential endeavor, not a decorative endeavor.” Thus spoke the industrial designer Niels Diffrient in a 2003 interview with The New York Times. Among ...

Who Makes the Most Iconic Chairs? Just as in the world of fashion, the makers of the most iconic types of chairs are varied. There are designers like Carl Hansen and Alvar Aalto, and even uncredited, ...

Time has been kind to New York’s Guggenheim. Today, it’s considered Frank Lloyd Wright’s crowning statement and an unequivocal masterpiece of modern architecture, but upon opening in 1959, its ...

For the past six years, Julie and Jeff Hinkel, owners of Voltage Furniture, have shown the work of Associate Professor Emeritus Tony Kawanari’s students in the University of Cincinnati’s College of ...

If you’re shopping for a new chair for your PC setup, you might notice that gaming chairs and office chairs are the two predominant types of options available right now. At first glance, you might ...

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