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Best Folding Chairs 2008 (some are cheap too!)
Email from 8.1.08

Stitch Chair (top), Air & Skip (below) So, you live in a shoebox, but you want to be able to have dinners for 8 at the drop of a hat? The table isn't hard to figure out, but the chairs take up WAY t...

Green Ideas: Chairs Made from Fruit & Leaves

These chairs from designer Jessica Konawicz and were designed to be as green and energy-efficient as possible. The design was one of the winners of the One Good Chair contest and uses both green, bi...

Folding Clip Chair by Blasius Osko & Oliver Deichman

We never would have guessed that this new Clip Chair from Moooi folded flat for storage! A technical feat that explains the high pricetag, the folding mechanism sets it apart from the similarly-shap...

Easy Chair by Jerszy Seymour

They've been spotted on Dityfleur's Deck, but we had to share this colorful photo featuring Jerszy Seymour's stacking Easy Chairs. Produced by Magis, these polypropylene chairs are suitable for outd...

Space-Saving Collapsible Furniture
New York Magazine 7.20.08

Remember the video of the slinky-like chair that took the internet by storm early last year? Well, we're excited to find out through New York Magazine that it's available for purchase in New York! The...

Rotterdam Stackable Chair by Hella Jongerius

The recent debut of the Bouroullec Brothers' Steelwood chair for Magis has overshadowed a similar design by Dutch designer Hella Jongerius for Vitra... ...

Pole Stackable Outdoor Chair

The Pole is a pretty piece of furniture made for the outdoors. The armchair is stackable and compact, with an aluminum frame and polypropylene seat, back and arms......

Outdoor Furniture We'd Use Indoors

Outdoor furniture has to be strong, durable and weather resistant. And often times design is compromised to fulfill these requirements. But there's also a lot of great outdoor furniture out there th...

Classic Parisian Park Chairs: High (Frederic Sofia) & Low

Two years ago Sara Kate and I took a sweet trip to Paris in March. It was delectable, like jumping into a design chocolate box, and I chronicled a number of our finds in posts like these: >> Paris ...

ICFF 2008: Chairs Worth Waiting For

Part of the fun of ICFF is finally getting to see/touch/experience furniture that we only know through pictures.We were thrilled to check out a number of designs for the first time. In addition to u...

Folding Chairs
NYT House & Home Roundup 3.27.08

Folding chairs can be a smart addition to small spaces when it becomes necessary to have extra seating on hand. Just last week, I pulled out my own orange metal folding chairs from IKEA to seat some...

Chaise & Tabouret: Chair & Stool by Marina Bautier

This solid oak chair from designer Marina Bautier hides an additional stool in its form. Designed to solve the problem of "the frustration of having to share a desk chair in front of a computer", th...

MYTO Chair by Konstantin Grcic

There are now more pictures of Konstantin Grcic's new cantilevered plastic chair, Myto . This was one of The New York Times' best ideas of 2007 for it's innovative use of materials and advanced plas...

Hanger Chair by Philippe Malouin

These hanger chairs would be a great addition to my apartment, if only I had closet space to store them! Designer Phillipe Malouin created these hybrid chairs to serve two functions, maximizing use....

Room & Board: Furniture & Home Furnishings

In the depths of our furniture hunting depressions, we have been touched by the many words of encouragement and suggestions. More than once, the name "Room & Board" came up, with links. Clicking th...

Naked Chair from Alberto Colzani

The Naked Chair from designer Alberto Colzani makes a good alternative to a classic Bertoia wire chair. In addition to being visually light and extremely sturdy, the Naked Chair is also stackable......

Smith by Jonathan Olivares

The charm of Smith is its simple structure and wide range of uses. Smith works as a stool or storage, but can also be stacked and hung from a desk or tabletop. This multi-functional cart is perfect ...

Miller Studio's Lawn Chair

Ever sitting in a crowd of lawn chairs at the beach or a concert and wish you had a design that set your lawn chair apart from all the rest? Want one that's a little more, uh, posh than the rest? Ch...

Seating by Valcucine

Valcucine is expert at making fine Italian kitchens (and they're green, too). But we recently saw that they have a few lines of furniture, too. These chairs in particular popped out at us, and it's ...

Danish Design Store

Enter Slideshow of Really Nice Product Pics We love finding a new resource. This one is all Danish design, all the time: the Danish Design Store. We don't know where they hell they are located, ...

RawStudio's 2Pac Flatpack Chair
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Simple Beauty. We love the elegance of the 2 Pac Chair from the UK's RawStudio. Made from sustainably sourced Forest Stewardship Council exterior birch plywood, the chair arrives in seventeen flat p...

Bottega Veneta Camp Cots

Luxe Redux. In a recent issue of Blueprint, they explored reusing inexpensive foldable camp cots as coffee tables. While their solution was thrifty and attractive, the Folding Camp Bed from Bottega ...

Twin Chairs by Euga Design

Like hand in glove, the Twin chairs by Italy's Euga Design fit together perfectly. They're a set of two chairs that are designed to fit together, creating a simple cylinder. The seats are made of oa...

Isis by Jake Phipps for Thonet

We're always on the lookout for good folding chairs here at AT. They save space and well-designed beautiful ones are at a premium. So, naturally, we fell over when we saw Isis. It's new this year, d...

2nd Cycle by Artek

Nothing is ever reborn, in the words of Alvar Aalto. Which is fitting for Artek and Tom Dixon's "new" furniture line, 2nd Cycle. The line is made up of old Artek pieces retrieved from all over the p...