"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 ...

A pair of iconic Barcelona Chairs, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe around 1929, at the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Canada. Courtesy of jmv/Flickr Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design ...

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Time has been kind to New York’s Guggenheim. Today, it’s considered Frank Lloyd Wright’s crowning statement and an unequivocal masterpiece of modern architecture, but upon opening in 1959, its ...

Designed by Ray and Charles Eames in 1949, the Shell Chair was derived from a prototype created as an entry for the Low-Cost Furniture Design competition organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) ...

What do Jean Prouvé’s Standard chair, Michael Thonet’s No. 14 chair and Philippe Starck’s Louis Ghost chair all have in common, besides being chic places to roost? They’re all recent cover stars for ...

Design classics aren’t just for interiors. In fact, a crop of notable 20th-century designers made dining and lounge chairs ...

Wassily Chair Designed to mimic the curving shape of a bicycle handlebar, this type of chair has been a design staple since Marcel Bruer first constructed it. One of the best examples of Bauhaus ...