Buy Once, Bequeath Later: Furniture Worth Inheriting

The average sofa is replaced every seven years. The average Chandigarh chair from 1955 has outlived its first three owners and appreciated four-hundred-fold. The difference is not price — it is intent.

When we specify furniture, we apply a single test: will this object be worth reupholstering in twenty years? A frame of kiln-dried hardwood with eight-way hand-tied springs passes. Anything stapled to particle board does not, at any price.

Start with the pieces your body touches for hours — the sofa, the bed, the dining chairs. Buy them once, brutally well, and let trend live in the cushions and the ceramics, which cost little to change and nothing to regret.