Design Secrets: Furniture

What brought Deam to that particular moment was his wife’s

pregnancy with twins, which necessitated “the requisite pilgrim-

age to the baby furniture store.” Deam found it intensely intrigu-

ing that such a lovely and comforting movement came in such an

ugly package. “What I didn’t like was that the way the chair

worked was not evident,” Deam notes. “They even put skirts

around the bottom of the chair to hide the mechanism. So I

wanted to do a beautiful, modern version of a glider because I

felt there had to be a market for people like myself that were

looking for a pleasant rocking chair in a modern idiom. The sec-

ond objective was that I felt hiding ...