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Baroque chair
mahogany ribbonback chairs
side chair
walnut armchair
Maurice Dufrène: club chair
Barcelona chair and stool
Bath chair
Brewster armchair, ash, American, about 1660–80; in Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
horseshoe armchair
Philippe Starck: Costes chair
Hear about the Bauhaus art school that existed in Germany and its most iconic design the cantilevered chair by Breuer
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Marcel Breuer
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