How One Chair Conquered the Planet: The Global Empire of a Simple Seat
The Chair Company That’s Sitting on the World By “Correspondent-at-Large with Chronic Back Pain” GENEVA—Somewhere between the fifteenth espresso of the week and the forty-seventh UN resolution on sustainable furniture, it became clear that the world’s most powerful seat of power is, quite literally, a seat. The Chair Company—officially known as Sedis Universalis S.A., though…