Clockwise from left: So & So’s, a new piano bar; archival dining furniture from Swedish design company Svenskt Tenn, Maria Pergay’s Ring Chair, and a line of Yrjö Kukkapuro’s Experimental Chairs.

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At some point in your life, maybe in a lecture hall or a church basement, chances are you’ve sat in a masterpiece of mid-20th century design — the “GF 40/4 Chair,” so-called because a stack of 40 of ...

If you move as a hardware hacker through the sometimes surprisingly similar world of artists, craftspeople, designers, blacksmiths, and even architects, there’s one piece of work that you will see ...