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Go Ahead: Match the Art to the Furniture
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Many of the rooms featured in Met Home are designed around collections of art, which makes perfect sense: People who love design usually love art, and vice versa. In...

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  • Posted by Michael Lassell on November 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM
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Fashion-Forward Furniture from London's Jimmie Martin
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Readers of “I on Design” already know that I am mad about Jimmie Martin, the couture London-based company whose furniture is about as cutting edge as it gets these days....

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  • Posted by Michael Lassell on October 29, 2009 at 1:49 PM
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How to Read a (Nearly) Empty Room
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People who live in modern houses don’t generally go in for clutter. The look is spare, open, uninflected. “Less is more” is decidedly the clarion call of modernism. But one...

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  • Posted by Michael Lassell on October 22, 2009 at 11:01 AM
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The 10 Best Chairs Ever, Part 2
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Last week, I divulged some of my picks for the most iconic modern seats. This week, read on to see the final five unveiled ...

The Aeron Chair...

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  • Posted by Michael Lassell on October 15, 2009 at 11:42 AM
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The 10 Best Chairs Ever, Part 1
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The first chair a human ever sat on was probably a rock. Handy, durable, not very portable, inexpensive. Happily the species evolved a sense of style, which is...

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  • Posted by Michael Lassell on October 8, 2009 at 1:20 PM
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Affordable Quick Fixes for Any Room in the House
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So I assume you’ve heard there’s a recession going on. Depressing. And most people are holding tight to their increasingly hard-to-earn greenbacks. So, yes, the major renovation plans...

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  • Posted by Michael Lassell on October 1, 2009 at 1:31 PM
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