Most furniture has a shelf life. Styles come in, dominate for a decade or two, and disappear. Bentwood chairs had their moment. Ladder-backs had theirs. Tubular steel chairs were everywhere in the 1930s and are now mostly in design museums

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The Chiavari chair is one of the few pieces of furniture still in regular use that has barely changed in over two centuries. The chair you’ll sit on at a London wedding next summer is, in almost every detail, the chair Giuseppe Gaetano Descalzi designed in a small Italian coastal town in 1807.

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