2024-12-22T00:02:36-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/148987196/how-the-couch-furnished-modernity-s-notions-of-privacy Julia Ingalls 2016-03-07T14:10:00-05:00 >2019-06-17T17:01:14-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8b/8bxs56i6ms7lco6o.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>In the 21st century, the couch is so ubiquitous as to be virtually invisible. We find them in commercial waiting rooms, in private homes, as infested harbingers of urban decay on street corners. They populate television talk shows and form a shorthand for psychiatric evaluation. But how has this piece of furniture, which has only been around for about 330 years, become the seat of our culture?</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/148982384/a-sheet-of-plastic-a-few-screws-and-five-minutes-are-all-it-takes-to-assemble-one-of-these-darling-stackable-chairs Nicholas Korody 2016-03-01T15:34:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/q9/q90trtd92sfjrhgc.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>IKEA may be the main peddler of assemble-it-yourself furniture, but, as many disgruntled college students would attest, their designs are often less-than-easy to realize. The "Thermoplastic Darling Stackable Chair", on the other hand, requires just one sheet of pre-scored polypropylene, a few screws, and about five minutes to put together.</p>