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Identify This Wood & Leather Vintage Chair?
Good Questions

Q: I found a pair of great looking chairs at a local store last week. They have no markings, but I'm sure they are something special. While trying to research them I came across this photo from an A...

Help Identify These Retro Egg-like Chairs?
Good Questions

Q: I recently won these chairs off of an eBay auction and I was wondering if the Apartment Therapy readers could identify them for me. The seller describes the label as a flame, and a "B." I know th...

Ideas for Pumping Up a Traditional Dining Room?
Good Questions

Q: We just bought a dining room table and chairs and we'd love some ideas on how to take the traditional dining room set and the room's mouldings and make it more funky and unique. Paint color, windo...

Bemz Now Offering Replacement Covers for IKEA Poang Chairs

Let's face it, the IKEA Poang chair is ubiquitous for a reason. It's passably attractive, reasonably comfortable and a decent price. While IKEA offers a good range of cushion covers, Bemz now offe...

Monza Chair by Konstantin Grcic

The word that comes to us every time we look at the Monza chair is "delicious". We love the wispy design and the combination of the poppy color with light ash wood....

214X214 Thonet Chair no. 14 Photo Competition

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of chair no. 14 (today called the 214), Thonet is holding a photo competition for the best 214 original photos of the bentwood chair. The winning photographs will ...

Family Chairs by Lina Nordqvist

Similar at first glance, the family chairs seem to reveal more unique characteristics the more we look at them. For those not quite ready to go with the mismatch chair trend these chairs offer a sli...

Peculiar & Clever Chairs by Hans J. Wegner

Wegner's seductive craftsmanship and elegant selection of natural materials equal high popularity with a wide audience, especially here on Apartment Therapy. We came across some of Wegner's lesser k...

Jon Brooks' Home: A Sculptor’s Handmade Retreat
New Hampshire

There’s not a clean line to be found in the house and studio of sculptor and furniture maker Jon Brooks, whose chair sculptures were featured in the 1988 Tim Burton film Beetlejuice. Most of the m...

Warren Chair Works: Classic & Contemporary Windsor Chairs

The unpretentious Windsor chair is a design staple here in the Northeast — in modern and traditional homes alike. We recently got a behind-the-scenes tour of the Warren Chair Works showroom an...

Furniture Design by Micaelan Davis

At her MFA thesis show a few weeks ago, RISD grad Micaelan Davis turned a couple of witty concepts into a beautifully executed lounge chair and dining table. The Foot Chair solves the age-old dilemm...

Marcel Breuer at the RISD Museum
Rhode Island

(Welcome Sarah — our newest New England blogger posting from Providence, Rhode Island!) Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture at the RISD Museum of Art (through July 19) presents a large coll...

Before & After: Mary's New White Chairs

You may remember Mary's question about DIY powder-coating back around Easter. She was in a rush to get her Marais A chairs from eBay painted white and was contemplating doing it herself. But she too...

Chair with Drawer!

Of course...a chair with a drawer. It makes brilliant sense. Perfect for those who like to keep an ultra-spare desk area; here's where you can hide away your detritus. Have you seen any other cha...

Tio Chair By Massproductions

In the world of wire chairs there isn't much inspiration beyond Eames and Bertoia. But newcomers Massproductions, the collaboration of Chris Martin and Magnus Elebäck, recently launched their first...

Martino Gamper's Chairs

If you trash-pick as much as we do, you probably see a lot of parts to things, especially chairs. Instead of passing them by next time, you may appreciate this bit of inspiration from British desig...

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