5 Seating Reboots
These five seating reboots telegraph joie de vivre.
Designer: Børge Mogensen
for Carl Hansen & Søn
Product: BM0865
Standout: The Danish icon’s 1958 daybed with leather-strapped bolsters relaunches in oak heartwood—the dense, flawless inner portion of the tree’s trunk.
Designer: Winfried Totzek
for De Sede
Product: DS-142
Standout: The
back and arm-
rests of this legacy
leather chaise, designed in 1988, can be individually adjusted into endless positions. Through DDC.
Designer: Arne Jacobsen
for Fritz Hansen
Product: Lily
Standout: The chair originally known as the Series 8 and designed in 1968 for the Danish National Bank is now veneered in walnut, a previously impractical feat due to the difficulty of curving the armrests without cracking the thin wood layer.
Designer: Viggo Boesen
for &Tradition
Product: Little Petra VB2
Standout: Based on Boesen’s
original drawings from the
1930s, this sheepskin sofa
with oak or walnut legs is as carefully crafted as its lounge-size predecessor—but has room for two. Through Suite NY.
Designer: Shiro Kuramata
for Cappellini
Product: Sofa With Arms
Standout: Get in quick: The 1982 tubular-metal cult classic, now with a varnished anthracite frame and poly-velvet cover (in green, blue, magenta, or yellow), is being produced in a limited edition of 132.