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Coca-Cola Solves the Obesity Epidemic: The Chairs Caused It!

Nancy Huehnergarth | Posted 03.29.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Publicis Spain, Chairs, Madrid, Coca-Cola, Commercials, Obesity, Coke, Healthy Living Health News, Obesity Crisis, Obesity Epidemic, Healthy Living News
Nancy Huehnergarth

Move away from your La-Z-Boy. Don't trust that bar stool. Get a restraining order against your wingback. The geniuses at Coca-Cola have figured out why we're so overweight and -- drum roll, please -- it's the chairs that are the culprit.

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WATCH: From Tree to Table, a Brooklyn Designer in His Studio

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Chairs, Furniture Design, Behind-the-Scenes, Making Of, Home Design, Designer, Design, Tables, Brooklyn-Designers, Designer-Maker, Custom Furniture, Eco Furniture, HuffPost Home News
Chauncey Zalkin

Daniel Moyer is a great example of a contemporary, high caliber design creative who employs wood furniture craftsmanship techniques of the highest order.

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Bill Gates Jumps Over A Chair

The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 12.12.2011 | Technology
Read More: Chairs, Bill Gates Chair Video, Video, Bill Gates, Microsoft, Technology News

This is a video of Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft, jumping over a chair: As one YouTube commenter points out: "He's not kno...

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The 7 Best Gym-Free Workout Routines

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 09.25.2011 | College
Read More: Chairs, Hill, Steps, Interval Training, Podcasts, Water Bottles, Improvise, Planks, Kitchen, Babysitting, Squats, Gym, Saving Money, Los Angeles, Outdoors, Push Ups, Dancing, Workout, Breakfast, Running, Indoors, Playground, Dance, Monkey Bars, Boxing, College News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

A gym membership was out of the question; the price of a month-long membership to anywhere is INSANE, and I didn't have a way to get there anyway. So I came up with my own routines.

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Exhibition Spotlight: Mind Games With Julian Hoeber's Paintings

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Chairs, Blum and Poe, Julian Hoeber, Furniture Design, Modern Art, Sculpture, Design, Contemporary Art, Psychedelic, Los Angeles Art, Exhibitions, Painting, Slidefullscreen, Arts News

WHO: Julian Hoeber WHAT: The Execution Changes, Endless Chair, and His and Hers WHEN: February 5 - March 12, 2011 WHERE: Blum & Poe 2727 South La...

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PHOTOS: INTERNATIONAL DESIGN: 70 Years Of Denmark's Design by Jacob Slevin, CEO of DesignerPages.com

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Chairs, Design, Slideshow, Danish Design, Slidefullscreen, Denmark, Design Thursdays, Jacob Slevin, New York, Arts News

I'm a true lover of all things design, so I scarcely play favorites with furnishing-genres. Nevertheless, I'll go on record saying that the Danish Mod...

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DIVINE DESIGN: Glorious Chairs From Kartell To The Pencil Bench

Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Furniture Designer, Chairs, Furniture Design, Chair Design, Kartell, Slidepollajax, Interior-Designers, Konstantin Grcic, Designmiami, DesignMiami's Designer of the Year, Arts News

The notion of redesigning the chair for a modern, innovative, design-centric world seems similar to redesigning the wheel. As a concept, is it really...

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My Mom's Review of Charles Rohlf's Artistic Furniture at the Huntington

Mat Gleason | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Chairs, Huntington Library, Furniture, San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles, Contemporary Art, Mom, San Marino, Frank Lloyd Wright, Moms, Rohlf, Arts News
Mat Gleason

Rohlf has recently come to the front of the line in furniture as art, with some scholars positing that he was an integral influence on Charles Makintosh, Frank Lloyd Wright and Gustav Stickley.

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A Guide to Wing Chairs

Lauren and Suzanne McGrath | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Chairs, Hickory Furniture, Restoration Hardware, Graceful Chair, New Your Interior Design, Thomas O'Brien, Decorative Art History, Wing Chairs, Decorative Arts, 21st Centruy Furniture, Antiques, Interior Design, Mitchell-Gold, Crate-and-Barrel, Style News
Lauren and Suzanne McGrath

When I was growing up, my parents always had a pair of traditional wing chairs on either side of the fireplace.

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Life Cycle: Life After Desk

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Chairs, Landfills, Volatile Organic Compounds, Desk, Reduce, Glues, Environmental, Office Furniture, Green Office, Recycle, Wooden, Varnishes, Environment, Waste, Reuse, Sarah Smarsh, Deforestation, Simran Sethi, Vocs, Green News
Simran Sethi

Often, the greenest consumer route is not buying new products made with Earth-friendly methods but rather scoring used products made with traditional, possibly heinous methods. Reduce, reuse, then recycle.

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