I decided to take a few hours to myself to decompress… so without thinking too much, I started to carve a piece of scrap wood… being led...

It is well understood by good parents that life should only ever get so exciting for a baby: after friends have come around and brought...

In the 1950s, Charles and Ray Eames took on a project to design a high-end, luxury chair. It was to be modern, chic, and stylish. It also...

The 'Snelling Line' was Australia's first popular, mass produced range of furniture sold widely through the major department stores from...

Some days… moments of clarity just turn up when you least expect it. Some days… simple questions just come to mind to ponder. Yesterday...

Australia’s silky oak has some oak-like qualities, but the Queensland native is not a true oak. Australian silky oak is from the species...

You may be happier now, objectively, than you ever were in your earlier years. You may even have had a pretty miserable or perhaps...

You’re turning the pages and a very strange – and very nice – thing dawns on you. This book gets you. Obviously, the author (who might...

We think nothing of them today, they are everywhere. But relatively speaking, it was not that long ago they were very rare – that is, the...

Names of various furniture shapes don't come any more interesting than the "slipper chair." It sounds feminine and romantic and seems...

She is in a park – kind of looks like some sort of picnic, grinning wildly, looking deeply proud of something, standing next to a boy you...

There are many opinions on the origin of the word "Chesterfield" as a description of the item we now know as such. According to the...

The term Morris Chair usually defines a deep, high armchair with an adjustable reclining back and cushions for the back and seat. It...

A chaise longue is an upholstered sofa in the shape of a chair that is long enough to support the legs. In modern French the term chaise...

A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled...

No other piece of furniture has had quite the same fall from grace among collectors as has the balloon back dining chair. Once the most...

A big question that pops up from time to time for me is, ‘What really matters?’ Sure, there are elements about philosophical living, but...

The Adirondack chair is another iconic chair, always associated with lovely relaxing imagery, usually beside the water. The first...

The average person spends 84% of their life indoors: that is, inside architecture. Much of the rest of the time we are around buildings,...