Cube Chair: Zebra Wood Arms

Striped wood wraps the chair like a very expensive picture frame.

This contemporary cube chair with zebra wood arms is from the Primitive Collection, in Desert Sand 1093 upholstery. Cube chairs came out of the modern wish to strip a seat down to geometry, and zebra wood, named for its dark and light streaks, gives the plain shape its only ornament. Broad flat arms run down and under in one continuous band, with figured grain in deep brown. Golden cushions with piped edges sit inside. A dark plinth lies beneath. It is 31 inches long, 32.25 deep and 26.75 high.

The zebra is purely a figure of speech.