We help a reader track down furniture from a photograph taken in the early 1950s.
Category: Chairs
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8 Products That Can Bring Comfort to Life
These innovative designs promote ease in a variety of ways.
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Chairs That Feel Like a Hug
Ten seats you won’t want to get up from.
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Yrjo Kukkapuro, Who Made the Easiest of Easy Chairs, Dies at 91
A celebrated Finnish modernist, he designed a variety of furnishings but was best known for his seating — which, his company said, “almost every Finn has sat on.”
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Kim Hill Is Building Her Seat at the Table
After walking away from the Black Eyed Peas, the artist and designer has been making work on her own terms.
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Studio Campana’s Jalapão Chair Was Three Years in the Making
Humberto Campana wanted to create furniture from a Brazilian “golden grass.” But first, he would have to wait for the harvest.
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Restoring a Chair Is Easier Than You Think. Ask the Brownstone Boys.
Jordan Slocum and Barry Bordelon have a lot of practice restoring brownstones in Brooklyn, so refinishing a chair was no big deal. Here’s how they did it.
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T’s 25 Most Defining Pieces of Furniture From the Last 100 Years: Everything We Considered
From a Marcel Breuer chair to Metro shelving, all the nominated objects.
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Design Advice for Making the Practical Pretty
On feel-good desk chairs, stylish laundry rooms and game tables you don’t have to banish to the basement.
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Upholstered Seating to Settle Into
Wrapped entirely in velvet, leather or wool, modern dining chairs are softening up.
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The Furniture Hustlers of Silicon Valley
The New York Times – Business:As tech companies cut costs and move to remote work, their left-behind office furniture has become part of a booming trade.