Design to comfort body and soul
Scandinavian furniture is dominant and influential at the de Veres design auction later this month
The first person to use the word ‘comfort’ in the modern sense was 18th-century innovator Horace Walpole. Until then, the word meant aid given to someone in distress, and was never applied to home furnishings.
Comfort was the masterstroke of 20th-century Scandinavian designers. They made furniture that delights the ...
