Chair

 This “task chair,” as they like to call it, was made by the Steelcase Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Grand Rapids, Michigan, if you haven’t been there, was populated by Dutch Protestants, and is a staid, conservative kind of town. And Steelcase makes about the most boring stuff in the world: filing cabinets, cubicles, desk chairs. That summer you spent interning with an accountant? You were probably sitting in a Steelcase chair, at a Steelcase desk. In short, this is a solid, boring chair. Which is why it pairs so well with the desk.  Work can’t all be about smooth lines and exotic wood, you know. This chair is infused with all of the very best variants of dull, hardworking people the Western world has produced in the last 100 or so years. These are the people about whom Weber so famously said, “I wish they’d just loosen up and take a vacation.” Just imagine how productive you’ll be sitting in it. 40 euros.