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Identita: A Perfect Home Theater Seating Solution

Getting the right furniture for your home theater room isn't always easy. There are a lot of choices out there, but not all of them are good. Usually, seating in a home theater amounts to getting some...

A Colorado Home Built for the Ages
The New York Times

When Cynthia Leibrock designed her house she not only kept beautiful architecture, furniture, and décor in mind, she kept her and her husband's aging bodies in mind as well. Her glass-and-steel home...

Calypso Chair: A Perfect Office Lounger

Finding the right office chair can sometimes be a hassle. You need something comfortable, but not too comfortable. The other thing is that it has to look good if clients come around. The Calypso Chair...

Look! Ball Chair With Built in iMac

How's this for a small footprint self contained home office? Well a really, really, really expensive chair that you would have to justify as a home office. The Sonic Chair has been here before and whi...

For the Rich Couch Potato: Athena Multimedia Sofa

$15,436. That's how much it will set you back to enjoy the multimedia experience of the Athena Multimedia Sofa by Artanova of Switzerland. No doubt, it's a nice looking modern couch, but ouch, $15k+ f...

Angels and Sofas:Make Your Home Theater Room Even More Comfy

It happens all the time. You have all of what you need to enjoy the evening, except that you're rapidly running out of space to seat your friends and guests. The way to get around this is to simply ha...

Ron Arad and Moroso: Pixels Make Beautiful Furniture

It seems that Moroso has a thing for pixels. First it was the fabric choice for this sofa and now it is this Ron Arad creation being exhibited in the Pompidou Centre in Paris. ...

Herman Miller Embody Chair in the Test Lab

Product: Embody Chair Designer: Jeff Weber and Bill Stumpf Price: $1600 Rating: Strong Recommend >> View Slideshow Who knew you could make a task chair even weirder than the Aeron? We got our...

Vitra Panton Chair: The Perfect Desk Chair?

We spend a great deal of time at the computer — between two full time design jobs and our blogging gig here on AT, our behinds are glued to a desk chair for the majority of the day, everyday. So...

Workbay Task Chair by the Bouroullec Brothers

Aaron over at ATNY posted this office task chair which reminds us of a hooded sweatshirt. We want one ourselves now, considering the amount of ambient noise that enters our small office this could blo...

The Perfect A Lounge Chair To Surf

Lounge chairs are great. They are a mix between chairs and beds and usually are extremely comfortable. I'm sure that we aren't the only ones that noticed that lounge chairs are also great when combine...

Roundup: 6 Fancy, Ergonomic Home Office Chairs

If there's one thing we all love around here, it's a comfortable office chair. For us, those chairs are like beds since we spend the majority of our days typing, coding, and browsing away at little co...

Inada Sogno Massage Chair: The Ultimate in Comfort

People are always looking for the epitome of comfort when it comes to chairs. It's true that more and more people spend more and more hours in front of a computer monitor or sitting in a chair. This i...

The Leopard Robotic Chair: Can You Do This Aeron?

I am lucky enough to sit in an Aeron chair all day at the office. I love it. It is by far the most comfortable chair I have ever used, I wish I had one at home. As comfortable as this chair is though,...

The Iconic Ovalia Egg Chair: Reissued With More Tech

Nanu! Nanu! Remember Mork and Mindy? Remember the egg chair in the living room? Now we can't remember whether it was the Aarnio ball chair or this egg chair by Henrik Thor-Larsen. Maybe it was neither...

Stuff Live Conference: Hovering Lounger and Six-Foot Tall Speakers

While Americans (real and fake) celebrated Halloween, Stuff magazine hosted a gadget fest this weekend in London. On the convention floor one could find the Hoverit Lounger, which uses repelling magne...

Conference Space Loaded with Téchor Ideas

The other day we were at the megaplex getting ready to watch the horror flick Quarantine when an advertisement for the theater came up on the big screen selling the use of the space as an offsite conf...

Embody Chair by Herman Miller: One of the Best

14 years after creating the Aeron chair, Herman Miller designed the Embody, supposedly one of the ultimate experiences for your posterior. The Embody chair is one of the most comfortable and ergonomic...

Pouf-Man: Pac-Man Inspired Furniture

At first glance, this seating arrangement seems kind of odd until you realize what you are looking at. Pouf-Man is QAYOT's homage to one of the stars of arcade videogames, back when people actually we...

Sound/Chair: The Only Chair You Can Hear

The perfect addition to any audiophile's home: The chair that IS a sound. Based on a three-axis graph of volume and frequency against time, this armchair was the result of a series of trials—and...

Allsteel: The Chair To Crown All Office Chairs

Aerons have had too much spotlight fun. People are getting bored. They're popping bubble wrap. Behold, the sexy high end office chair alternative - the Allsteel Office Systems Acuity Chair, looking re...

Gentle Wave: The Perfect Lounge Chair

Lounge chairs can be used to take a naps, to comfortably access your laptop/computer or watch a movie on your home theater system. The Gentle Wave Lounge chair is the ultimate in lounge chairs or chai...

Sixinch: Benches From Super Mario Castle Bricks

Despite being thoughtfully designed and even named, "A Bench for Public Spaces," Pieter Jamart's efforts only remind us of the classic bricks found in the dungeonous labyrinths in the castles of Super...

OSIM uSpace Massage Chair: Right Out of Your Favorite Sci-Fi Movie

The OSIM uSpace is a full-body massage chair right out of science-fiction. It is warmed and has airbag-style massage cushions. Instead of just the usual mechanical massage, the airbags actually surrou...

Desk Chairs: The Pininfarina Xten

The name Pininfarina is eponymous with Ferrari. The prestigious design firm came up with a lot of incredible car designs for Ferrari and Maserati. However, Pininfarina doesn't just design cars. They h...