"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." As long as people have been furnishing homes, they've been designing—and shopping for—the best chairs to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

“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 ...

The updated Sunset Chair (re) and Beach Chair (re) introduce a new tension system, recycled aluminium frames and improved ...

Hey book lovers, please take a seat. And if you’d like, please take a seat with books inside of it. The annual Salone del Mobile furniture fair begins in Milan next week, and to launch its coverage of ...

You don’t need to travel to the Tuscan countryside to recognize that Italian design has long influenced interiors around the ...

Furniture design capabilities to come to the fore ; The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s (dtic) Furniture Master Plan’s objectives of strengthening local manufacturing capability and ...