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  • Achille Castiglioni: Italian Design’s Master of Found Objects

    Achille Castiglioni: Italian Design’s Master of Found Objects

    In 1957, Achille Castiglioni walked into a Milan design studio with a tractor seat and a bicycle saddle. His colleagues thought he’d lost his mind. Five years later, his Mezzadro and Sella stools were redefining what furniture could be. This was Castiglioni’s gift: seeing extraordinary possibilities in ordinary objects that everyone else ignored.

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  • Discover Mid-Century Modern: Complete Beginner’s Guide

    Discover Mid-Century Modern: Complete Beginner’s Guide

    That sleek chair at the vintage store that costs more than your rent? The house with walls of glass that makes you stop mid-jog? The lamp that looks like a UFO landed in 1962? Welcome to mid-century modern — the design movement that proves the 1950s and ’60s weren’t just about Jell-O molds and bomb…

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  • The Teak Truth: Why Your Mid-Century Chair Costs More Than Your Car Payment

    The Teak Truth: Why Your Mid-Century Chair Costs More Than Your Car Payment

    That Hans Wegner chair isn’t expensive because of Instagram hype. Touch the armrest — feel how the grain flows like water? That’s 80-year-old Burmese teak, harvested when Eisenhower was president. And if you’re oiling it with grocery store products, we need to talk.

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