Check out some of the finalists in Design Within Reach’s Holiday Champagne Chair Contest, in which entrants had to design a chair, no more than four inches in height, using the materials from no more than two champagne corks. Amazing. The chair with little wings pictured here is by Lucie Panis-Jones. (Link via The Frosty Mug Revolution.)
While on the topic of chairs, designboom has a number of illustrated histories, tracking the evolution of easy chairs, folding chairs, and other species (click on the images on each page to see more examples). The folding-chair history is also available as a wall poster. (Link via The Morning News.)