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New Furniture Collection by Pinch

Husband and wife team Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon have created a new collection of graceful and iconic pieces for their line, Pinch. From their studio/ showroom in London they design furniture wit...

Soft Parcel Modular Furniture by TAF

Cutting edge designers from Swedish design and architecture firm TAF takes packaging to a whole new level with their Soft Parcel collection. These are individual blocks of foam that have been uphols...

Dror Benshetrit Shops for Collapsible Furnishings
The New York Times

Dror Benshetrit's new line of furnishings for Target launches this Sunday in Target stores. The New York Times asked the New York-based designer who runs Studio Dror to put together a shopping list ...

Best Outdoor Dining Chairs 2009

I've been looking to upgrade our outdoor dining chairs for the past month. The ones' we've got are simple old Paris park folding chairs which I love, but they've become really run down from many ye...

Best Folding Chairs 2009 (cheap folding chairs too)

Clockwise from left: Lina, Fol.d, Air, Acrylic & Olivia Folders It's that time again. With Small Cool Month coming to a big conclusion this week (and the final four of the Smallest Coolest Home conte...

Look! A Small-Space Antique

There's a little folding rocking chair that's been in the family longer than me. It's a design by Albert M. Lock & Son and it folds smoothly into a compact plane for storage. Unfolded, it's a comfor...

3 Fold-Away Perches by Skagerak

These classic wooden seats by Danish furniture-maker, Skagerak, have so many uses in a small apartment. Each folds up for minimal storage size and, when opened, can be used as a seat, side table, st...

Relax Lounger for Conoduo Bath Tubs

Here's an interesting concept from luxury German bath fixture company Kaldewei — their new Relax Lounger is a series of 3 double-panel folding padded boards designed specifically for their Con...

High & Low: Colorful Outdoor Chairs
Luxembourg Collection & CB2

We've admired Frederic Sofia's Luxembourg collection of outdoor furniture since it was created in 2000 as a modern update of the furniture from Paris' Luxembourg Gardens. We've seen it at The Conran...

Vegetal Chair by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

click thumbnails for larger pics Following last year's critical success of their Steelwood chair for Magis, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have continued to add new and unique designs to their ever-expandi...

Zesty: Light & Stackable Chair by o4i

This just in. We got this chair from the design firm and thought it was particularly attractive and practical. Stacking chairs are RARELY this attractive. The Zesty Chair a brand new, all-plywood c...

Multipurpose Furniture: Bookcase, Chair and Table in One

We received an email alerting us to the work of this brilliant uArts Philadelphia student. The Easy Chair, designed by Lorenzo Buffa, is made of salvaged strand bamboo and can be used as a table or ...

Good Questions: Modern Folding Chairs & Table?

Is there a modern/different version of these folding chairs and table? I like the concept of how the chairs can be stored inside the table and the table can be used as a console table when not in use...

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This is New York.... Sometimes, before you settle on that ho-hum Crate & Barrel sofa, it's important to go somewhere just to drool -- somewhere where you hope the salesperson doesn't throw you out, ...

Best Folding Chairs 2008 (some are cheap too!)
Email from 8.1.08

Stitch Chair (top), Air & Skip (below) So, you live in a shoebox, but you want to be able to have dinners for 8 at the drop of a hat? The table isn't hard to figure out, but the chairs take up WAY t...

Green Ideas: Chairs Made from Fruit & Leaves

These chairs from designer Jessica Konawicz and were designed to be as green and energy-efficient as possible. The design was one of the winners of the One Good Chair contest and uses both green, bi...

Folding Clip Chair by Blasius Osko & Oliver Deichman

We never would have guessed that this new Clip Chair from Moooi folded flat for storage! A technical feat that explains the high pricetag, the folding mechanism sets it apart from the similarly-shap...

Easy Chair by Jerszy Seymour

They've been spotted on Dityfleur's Deck, but we had to share this colorful photo featuring Jerszy Seymour's stacking Easy Chairs. Produced by Magis, these polypropylene chairs are suitable for outd...

Space-Saving Collapsible Furniture
New York Magazine 7.20.08

Remember the video of the slinky-like chair that took the internet by storm early last year? Well, we're excited to find out through New York Magazine that it's available for purchase in New York! The...

Rotterdam Stackable Chair by Hella Jongerius

The recent debut of the Bouroullec Brothers' Steelwood chair for Magis has overshadowed a similar design by Dutch designer Hella Jongerius for Vitra... ...

Pole Stackable Outdoor Chair

The Pole is a pretty piece of furniture made for the outdoors. The armchair is stackable and compact, with an aluminum frame and polypropylene seat, back and arms......

Outdoor Furniture We'd Use Indoors

Outdoor furniture has to be strong, durable and weather resistant. And often times design is compromised to fulfill these requirements. But there's also a lot of great outdoor furniture out there th...

Classic Parisian Park Chairs: High (Frederic Sofia) & Low

Two years ago Sara Kate and I took a sweet trip to Paris in March. It was delectable, like jumping into a design chocolate box, and I chronicled a number of our finds in posts like these: >> Paris ...

ICFF 2008: Chairs Worth Waiting For

Part of the fun of ICFF is finally getting to see/touch/experience furniture that we only know through pictures.We were thrilled to check out a number of designs for the first time. In addition to u...

Folding Chairs
NYT House & Home Roundup 3.27.08

Folding chairs can be a smart addition to small spaces when it becomes necessary to have extra seating on hand. Just last week, I pulled out my own orange metal folding chairs from IKEA to seat some...

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