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,...

It is easy to get carried away imagining a happy life. One mentally sketches the perfect job, the ideal relationship, a wide set of...

There is no refuting what a unique piece of furniture can do for an area. Apart from carrying in a touch of the precedent with their...

I decided the other day that I wanted to bring a lot more greenery into the home environment. This naturally meant bringing with it...

If the idea of being a ‘modern’ person and leading a ‘modern’ life still has an exciting ring to it, it’s at least in part down to the...

I recently gave a client’s bentwood dining chairs a quick tune up. Bentwood objects are those made by wetting wood (either by soaking or...