During the early 18th century in Paris, the wealthy social elite were busy rejecting the regal seriousness of Baroque design for something more fun. The exuberant new Rococo style furniture opted ...

Before the 1850s, few chairs were made for comfort. Seventeenth and early 18th-century American chairs ... Early Victorian designers preferred hard upholstered seats and arms for sofas and large ...

The Postwar design phenomenon known as mid-century ... of more famous Finnish designers, such as Alvar Aalto. “When you’re going around Scandinavia, you sometimes see these chairs in hotel ...