Freud’s couch — laden with subtext and patient confessions — at Freud’s home and museum in Hampstead. We all know by now that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But when is a couch not just a couch? When the couch’s past owner was Dr. Sigmund Freud, it becomes nearly as celebrated as he [...]
The Egg Chair at home in Room 606 of the SAS Royal Hotel for which Jacobsen designed everything from the building to the furniture. Internationally known architect, developer of the Danish modern style, and furniture designer who gave the world the Egg chair, Arte Jacobsen saw proportion as a key feature of his work. “It [...]
The Frankl Tower is a classic example of his skyscraper furniture. Hot Pink. Turquoise. Black. Blond woods. Chrome. Atomic designs. The living room of tomorrow first took shape in the 1950s right? Actually modern furniture’s roots started much earlier as part of the Modernism movement, a cultural movement started at the end of the 19th [...]
This Brickmaker’s Table from Restoration Hardware is an example of stylish furniture made from reclaimed materials “Eclectic” is fast becoming the most popular answer to the age old question of “what’s your decorating style?” So it’s no surprise that furniture trends for 2010 reflect the growing willingness of consumers to mix things up when making [...]
