We loved seeing so many signs of wear and tear on furniture in Chandigarh - signs that the furniture has been well appreciated and well loved throughout its lifetime.

Fascinating for us to learn that many of the Chandigarh Chairs seen in museums around the city have been restored by the Chandigarh Model Jail Factory.

There's so much material about the style and creation of Chandigarh Chairs, and so little about their construction and making. Thinking today about the hands and the person who originally caned this chair, and those who followed in their footsteps.

Oh look, I'm in a book 📖 Very grateful to @DrDonnaYates and @DrNOosterman for including the work of the Chandigarh Chairs team in 'Art Crime in Context', where we discuss the resale of modern design objects on the art market. 👇🏻 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Have we reached peak Chandigarh Chair saturation? Seen below, a replica chair in Anthropologie...

Good to see concrete actions resulting from a French delegation visit to Chandigarh: indianexpress.com/article/cities…

A book with a very interesting chapter on Design Crime explored vis-a-vis Chandigarh's modernist furniture (If we say so ourselves - which we do!)

Many thanks to Design History Society for their financial support of the Chandigarh Chairs project - a report summarizing our recent trip is now online: designhistorysociety.org/blog/view/repo…

Planning for our HASTAC 2023 Conference moderated panel ( What should be next for the Chandigarh chairs?) is now well underway!

Here's what ChatGPT has to say about Chandigarh's modernist furniture:

A chair here, a chair there, a chair everywhere - replica Chandigarh chair within a high-end fashion boutique in Paris' Groupe Galeries Lafayette.

I spy with my little eye....a suspiciously similar looking wood and caned chair in a real estate office in Nice, France.

A suspiciously Chandigarh-esque stool on sale at IKEA USA right now...

Apparently Chandigarh chairs are now 'Danish style'! LotsRoadAuctions how the heck did you end up with this description?