Cube Chair: Zebra Wood Arms

Four straight lines, one streaked wood, and no interest whatever in curves.

This cube chair with zebra wood arms is a contemporary piece from the Primitive Collection, upholstered in Desert Sand 1093. Modern designers liked the cube because it made a chair read as architecture, and a striped wood such as zebra wood needed no help from carving. Dark and red-brown grain runs along the arms and turns the corner beneath the seat. Plush golden cushions sit inside, with piping along every edge. The frame rests on a plain black plinth. It is 31 inches long, 32.25 deep and 26.75 high.

Geometry seldom looks this comfortable.