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Artwork That Transforms Into Desk Goes Viral
Dutch designer Robert van Embricqs took Instagram by storm with his modular furniture.
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Opinion
Should We Be Uncomfortable With Furniture in Art Galleries?
At first, seeing exhibitions incorporating home furnishings worried me, thinking they turn galleries into shops for luxury goods. But this concern is misguided.
Art
The Rich History of Women in Design, From 1900 to Now
Here We Are! is an expansive exhibition exploring the role of women in furniture design, fashion design, industrial design, and interior design.
News
This Pricey Burger Chair Doesn't Come With Fries, But It Is Inspired by Art
Relish Italian luxury retailer Seletti's "Burger Chair" — which looks uncannily like Claes Oldenburg's "Floor Burger."
Art
A Young Designer’s Pulpy and Surprisingly Personal Furniture
Thomas Barger, whose material of choice is colorful paper pulp, is part of a generation of adventurous furniture designers reshaping their field in the US.
Art
The Gift of Simplicity in America's Love Affair with the Shakers
The Metropolitan Museum of Art examines the emergence of 19th-century Shaker minimalism, and its influence on American Modernism.
Books
The Chairs that Architects Have Designed
Before he designed the soaring 1962 TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport, Eero Saarinen experimented with gravity-defying design through his one-legged white and red Tulip chair.
Books
The Origins of Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal in a One-Legged Chair
When the TWA Flight Center opened in 1962 at New York's JFK Airport, its swooping form seemed to embody flight itself, with its two white wings rising from the tarmac.
Art
A Designer Experiments with Digital Design, After 60 Years of Handcrafted Furniture
Designer Wendell Castle has made a career out of challenging the boundaries that define art and furniture.
Art
Lincoln's Loveseat: Help Restore the 'Courting Couch' Where Abe Wooed His Babe
There are plenty of artifacts of Abraham Lincoln, from his fine pocket watch acquired while he was a successful Illinois lawyer to the presidential top hat he's believed to have worn for that infamous 1865 evening at Ford's Theater.
Art
Breeding the Perfect Chair
Good or bad, every experiment starts with a hypothesis. For Dutch-born designer Jan Habraken with New York-based design studio FormNation, it was the question: "What if we apply the science of genetic engineering to an inanimate object?"
Opinion
Color-Changing Furniture Controlled by Electrical Pulses
Part of choosing to buy an aesthetic object, whether that’s a piece of art, a decorative sculpture, or a provocative furniture item, is committing to living with it. Sure, your Zaha Hadid desk looks amazing, but would you really want to do work on it every day? Into that conundrum comes British desi