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 ...

Finding your dream sofa (or chair) is much easier said than done - especially if you're unable to view it in person before making your big purchase. That's where Apartment Therapy's Personal Shopper ...

Up until the 1990s, there was little evolution in the design of the average office chair. But that all changed with the introduction of the Herman Miller Aeron chair in 1994, a story by New Yorker ...

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 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 ...

Dusen Dusen recently remixed Dims’s Cleo chair, originally designed by Stine Aas, with punchy, Memphis-y colors. Photo: Sean Davidson From time to time, I’ll share the objects (and the people who make ...

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 ...

Wassily Chair Designed to mimic the curving shape of a bicycle handlebar, this type of chair has been a design staple since Marcel Bruer first constructed it. One of the best examples of Bauhaus ...

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 ...