Chairs by Architect, a book by art historian Agata Toromanoff, explores the relationship between architect’s buildings and chair designs. Here are a few excerpts from the tome.

Tread Chair-fully

(Errico Cano)

(Aldo Ballo)

(Hiroyuki Hirai/Courtesy Shigeru Ban Architects)

(Courtesy Shigeru Ban Architects)

(Mikkel Frost)

(Nikolai Moeller/Courtesy JDS Architects)