“Do your work as if you had a thousand years to live and as if you were to die tomorrow.”
The above quote is usually attributed to Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, whose style of furniture lives on even as their sect as dwindled to a few remaining members.  Much of the enduring appeal [...]

Internationally know 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 is exactly what makes the beautiful ancient Egyptian temples…here is the basic thing,” he said in an interview shortly before his death in [...]