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Why could be a floor lamp so relevant in an interior decorating process? Choosing the perfect spot to place your floor lamp can be a challenge that requires a lot of cunning, strategy, and intuition to achieve the most desirable effects. If you have a piece as amazing as the Arco lamp and you want to make it shine in its maximum splendor, you should consider certain useful advice. One of the most …

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 …

After 20 DOTW articles, we were looking to do a little of a return to form. The more recent articles were longer, wodier, and featured both big and not-so-big names in the mid-century furniture industry. However, some of the latest ones didn't even mention mid-century furniture at all. That is the reason why we're going to talk about Mr. Aalto. He was a Finnish architect and furniture designer an …

Mr. Robin Day, OBE, and a Fellow of the British Royal Chartered Society of Designers, was born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England in 1915. Along with his wife, Lucienne Day (a renowned British textile designer) he created modern pieces of furniture that helped Britain get into the mid-century modernist craze. High Wycombe was already famous as a furniture-production town many decades befor …