Speaking of Plycraft’s take on the Eames lounge, here’s one I’ve never seen before: a recliner with a built-in footrest. Many Plycraft lounges have the ability to do something an Eames 670/671 can’t do: tilt back. But this one extends a...

Plycraft is known for producing the most common mimicry of the famous Eames Lounge, but Über Modern has a less common version of Mulhauser’s lounge chair without tufting buttons and with a plywood base. As far as I know, it’s incorrectly labeled a...

Once known only to the closest followers of product design history, Dieter Rams is now becoming a mainstream hero of modernism. His work was included last year in an exhibition at the V&A Museum, he appeared in Gary Hustwit’s film “Objectified, and...

We’ve covered this desk before (attributed to Jens Quistgaard) but not until I saw the images attached to this SoHo Treasures listing did I realize the back section folds down to create more surface area. There should be more of this in contemporary...

Brazilian Modernism, photography by Julian Weyer As the content of The Mid-Century Modernist clearly suggests, my taste leans Nordic. That has a lot to do with my heritage, having been born of a Swedish mother and having lived in Stockholm for a...