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There comes a time in a guy's life when he needs to upgrade from the dorm room video game chairs that you can pick up from Bed Bath and Beyond for twenty bucks. While they're [...]

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There's something we hate about purchasing a piece of furniture from a place like Ikea knowing plenty of other people have jotted it down on their meatball-stained "To Buy" sheets as well. It isn't personal in [...]

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The second we figure out how to become insanely wealthy (we’re banking on scratch-off lottery ticket winnings) we’re heading over to Copenhagen, dining at Noma and coming home with a private jet full of Danish [...]

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Most furniture purchases need to be rationalized to make sense to men. Do you really need another set of dining room table chairs to accommodate her family that never comes over? Really? Even if it's [...]

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There are a lot of things we want to own that we will, unfortunately, never be able to own. We're less concerned about the stereotypically museumesque things: fine art, pottery and anything that hangs on [...]

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WARNING: If you’re a drunk, this is definitely NOT the love seat for you. Mainly because as you move around on The Chair Special Love Seat it moves along with you. We’re not talking like it has [...]

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This chair is $1300. Technically it's $1295, but you're better than the pseudoscience of product pricing so lets call it $1300. Which is probably more than: your rent, first car, the amount of money in [...]

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Think of the Swedes. We came up with meatballs, IKEA, and Volvo. We definitely did not think of graffiti or stools or graffiti stools. Which is probably why we aren't famous furniture designers selling an [...]

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Every man needs a throne. Ok, every man needs two thrones - one to sit in and one to do shit in. Thrones fit for Kings - or even Queens - tend to be untouchable [...]

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Every man needs a place - even if it's closer in size to a closet or doubles as your living room - where he can be productive, work on forearm muscles individually, or [...]

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Owning a good leather lounge chair should be on the bucket list of every man, somewhere between having a one night stand and getting arrested. Jehs and Laub's leather lounge chair is our pick: with [...]

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We might all be loyal to the Stars N' Stripes, but there's something that the Union Jack has in spades  that our flag just doesn't - style. The Union Jack is the style equivalent of [...]

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The 1950s Leather Copenhagen Chair from Restoration Hardware is a cross between Dr. Evil's swiveling chair of awesome and a dystopian future filled with leather that Mel Gibson would be perfectly at home in. Though [...]

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Take a seat in a luxuriously comfortable lounge chair that evokes thoughts of lying on a pristine beach sipping champagne without a care in the world. Modeled after the vintage French club chairs, the St. [...]

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The Ferrari F360 is an engineering spectacle (it's not just a car) that most men would kill to drive, let alone own. Unfortunately, most men can't stomach the six-figure price tag that is associated with [...]

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