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Auctions

A folding throne from Ming China, a Copenhagen classroom, and the two-million-dollar armchair that taught Danish modern how to sit.

Auctions

Auction houses spent twenty-five years learning how to value design's past. Every brand that has one, or wants one, should start taking notes.

People

Somewhere in your house there is probably a high-backed chair, a stylised rose, or a piece of elegant lettering that traces back to one Glasgow couple. He died broke and voiceless; she vanished from the record almost entirely. This is what fame looks like when it arrives ninety years late.

Stories

“A chair is to have no backside. It should be beautiful from all sides and angles.”Hans J. Wegner

Stories

A century of designers making sound visible — from Snow White's Coffin to the Sonambient barn

Stories

Bamboo splits when you force a curve into it. That flaw is the whole story: of a Gucci handle, of a bathroom faucet, and of every craftsman who ever held a stalk over a flame and waited for the exact second before it cracked.