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Eero Saarinen designed the Womb Chair in 1946 after a brief meeting with Florence Knoll at the Cranbrook Academy of Art. According to history, she told him that she wanted a chair that she could just “sit in sideways or any other way I want,” because she said tired of the uncomfortable lounge chairs that everybody had in their homes back then. Saarinen then proceeded to create the firs …

Designer of the Week: Achille Castiglioni - Featuring the Arco Lamp!  Eight months ago, art and design enthusiasts around the world celebrated the 100 th birthday of Achille Castiglioni, one of the foremost Italian designers of the mid-century modernist period, and co-creator of the inimitable, unparalleled  Arco lamp. Born in Milan in 1918, Achille showed an early passion for the artis …

Continuing our examination of the latest and most important trends in furniture for 2019, we’re back with two trends that will definitely shape most living spaces around the country. There are a lot of trends that we can identify and make use of in 2019, but we have reduced that number to four, as we explained on part one, so you can have a better understanding of what to get. Here are the …

It’s been a while since we talked about a designer that wasn’t entirely American or European. The mid-century modernist movement spanned the entire world in many different ways, as we have mentioned before. In Australia, particularly, there were a lot of furniture designers and architects that adhered to mid-century trends and breakthroughs, even though most of them are now almost unk …