"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 ...

This year’s Architectural Digest Design Show has come and gone but we’re still talking about the great designs we saw at the ...

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 ...

Ours is a design-conscious age, with furniture as with everything else. Hear names like "Eames," "Barcelona" or even "beanbag," and you probably know that chairs--specifically, famous chairs of the ...

“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 ...

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 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 ...

Is there an object of design more commonly used or celebrated than the chair? For many renowned designers and architects, a single chair can be their piece de resistance–and prized pieces are known to ...

Williams Sonoma's Santa Barbara club chair is tall enough to use for dining but large enough to recline and lounge in, too. It's an all-purpose outdoor chair and is essentially indestructible. The ...

The global bedroom furniture market has long been dominated by traditional wooden designs emphasizing durability, aesthetics, and craftsmanship. However, increasing urbanization, smaller living spaces ...