Mid-Century Modern

The Eames Lounge Chair costs $9,695 from Herman Miller. Here's what separates faithful Amazon replicas from furniture that just looks right - and why removable cushions matter more than you think.

The womb chair replica market collapsed down to quality manufacturers. Here's what makes a faithful reproduction actually work, why most failed, and the one option that delivers Saarinen's engineered comfort.

The Eameses made dozens of plywood chairs, but three letters keep appearing: DCM, LCW, DCW, LCM. Here's what those abbreviations actually mean, and which chair dominated sales so thoroughly that Herman Miller called it the future.

In 1962, Charles and Ray Eames did something designers who'd spent their careers championing accessible furniture rarely do: they took out full-page newspaper ads warning people not to buy cheap versions of their work.

Two furniture designers known for cheap mass-market chairs suddenly announced a luxury lounge in 1956. The story behind it involves Hollywood directors, baseball mitts, and one very expensive departure from everything they'd ever done.

This is an exploration of mid-century chair materials. Learn how to understand why designers used plywood, fiberglass, and wire instead of normal furniture materials from this material science deep dive.

This is a deep dive into the Womb chair phenomenon. Learn how to understand why this 1948 design still commands $600-8,000 from this cultural analysis.