Ground Condition #25

On the function (comfort! beauty! envy!) of a CHAIR

For this issue, I’m doing something a little different. My friend Christene Barberich— who publishes the rich, varied, vintage-heavy, home and fashion Substack A Tiny Apt.—quizzed me about “statement chairs” for a recent installment of her newsletter, and I’m riffing on that theme.

For background: I was an architecture and design editor for a dozen year…