To paraphrase the great comic-strip possum Pogo, "We have seen chairs, and they are us." Unlike the practical table or the bland, beckoning bed, a chair is never simply a chair. Taking the shape of a ...

Marcel Breuer was many things: a Hungarian citizen, a Bauhaus wunderkind, a Jewish refugee, designer of the Wassily chair. But since the prolific designer’s passing in 1981, there has been no ...

The 20th century is winding down, and decorative furnishings from the first half of the century are well on their way to becoming antiques. Chief among pieces considered museum classics are those that ...

Beware,” said Ghelderode, “of poetry that announces itself with placards.” Such warnings have never stopped Lee Breuer of Mabou Mines, whose loudly announced visions of stage poetry, in their ...

Cockatoo Island, a short ferry ride from Sydney’s Circular Quay, is the least likely place one would expect to be simultaneously cast and filmed for a motion picture set predominantly in Berkeley, ...

Sometimes it’s not necessary for a furniture retailer to sell whole pieces of furniture. In the case of Homeward — a showroom, catalog and online venture in Washington — just offering critical ...

Every time you plop yourself down in a chair at work, rush to your favorite seat in class, or lounge at your desk at home, you can thank the Bauhaus Movement. The Bauhaus was originally a German arts ...