A season spent looking at chairs.

We did the math later. Between Milan in April, a workshop circuit through Quebec in May, two weeks in Kyoto and Osaka in June, and the regional fair in Portland in July, we sat in something like two hundred and forty chairs. Two of us. Some of them for a minute. Others for an hour.

The point was not exhaustion — it was calibration. When you are choosing eight chairs to put on a showroom floor, you are also, implicitly, choosing everything you are not putting on it. And that decision is a lot easier to defend to yourself if you have actually sat in the alternative.

So: eight chairs made the floor this season. Four of them we had already been carrying. Three are new, including the low Mira and a revised Linden stool. One is a piece we used to carry, paused, and have chosen to bring back.

What surprised us, looking at what remained: almost every chair on the floor this season has a seat that is lower than the chair it is replacing. This was not a plan. It may have been a mood. We'll note it and watch where it goes.