Based on heavy wooden chairs of the Gothic period, the design was originally created for the duo’s Job Lounge at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands (see our earlier story). The plastic ...

THE PIECE: A Renaissance Revival carved oak Savonarola-inspired armchair, from about 1900 ... to ancient Rome's curule chair and the Italian Gothic Renaissance Savonarola chair.

Mr. Slonem's studio décor doesn't stop with the walls, though: At age 60, he has spent a globetrotting lifetime amassing quirky collections, from Neo-Gothic chairs to top hats to marble busts of ...