Interior Designers on the Most Iconic Furniture of All Time

Vogue’s senior lifestyle writer Elise Taylor assembled 22 designers and professionals to answer a single, deceptively simple question: which furniture pieces have not only entered our homes but our collective consciousness? The resulting feature spans everything from the simple farm table to Gaetano Pesce’s Space Age–esque Up chair, Arne Jacobsen’s Egg chair, and Yves Klein’s ultramarine Table IKB — a remarkable range that maps the full arc of furniture as both craft and cultural object.

FINCH Hudson’s Michael Hofemann and Andrew Arrick brought their perspective as curators of both vintage and contemporary design, making the case for a piece of 1930s Czech modernism — a movement that has long been overlooked relative to its Scandinavian and Bauhaus contemporaries, yet produced work of equal sculptural ambition. Their argument: that its architectural expressiveness, combined with an ability to take radically different characters depending on how it’s upholstered — whether in tapestry, shearling, or a bold graphic print — is precisely what makes a piece iconic rather than merely stylish.

The placement in Vogue positions FINCH alongside some of the most recognized names in interior design, and reflects the store’s longstanding reputation as a destination where deep knowledge of design history informs every acquisition. Since opening in 2013 on Warren Street in Hudson, NY, Arrick and Hofemann have built FINCH around exactly this kind of considered point of view: furniture not as commodity, but as object with biography.