At first sight the Bambach saddle seat looks really weird, you could easily imagine it as some sort of training seat for rodeo riders. It’s certainly very different looking to the usual kind of chair you find in the workplace.

So, what is this unusual seat all about?

What is the Bambach and why is it different? The Bambach saddle seat takes a radically different approach to work seating and is based on the principal of riding a horse. The seat design is built around the shape of a western style horse saddle.

Bambach Saddle Seat

If you’ve ever ridden a horse or observed someone riding one you’ll soon discover it places your legs much wider than they normally are when sitting in a conventional office chair.

This posture has two distinct benefits. First

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HDTV is fast gaining popularity and it has now become a necessity in modern homes. These days nearly all major electronics companies are manufacturing HDTVs. During the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, several companies launched their new HDTVs. Here is a list of 10 best HDTVs unveiled at the 2012 CES.

1 1. Toshibas glasses-free 3D HDTV

Manufactured by Japanese firm Toshiba, this glasses-free 3D HDTV boasts of a 55 inch screen and it is not a direct port of the ZL2. In 2D, this set displays at 4K (3840×2160), while in 3D it drops down to 720p (1280×720). The 3D effect of the model unveiled at the 2012 CES is much better than the prototypes that were put on display in 2011, but the 3D effect is not as good as offered in “regular” 3DTV.

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Every English nerd dreams of having a personal library, like the one Belle stumbles onto in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. I am no exception. There isnt a single Arts & Crafts bookcase I wouldnt want in my home, and all of them together would create my ideal book palace. My favorite was the Arts & Crafts Mission Double Door Bookcase, its Old World feel and glass paneling perfect for showcasing my collection. While preparing the new Arts & Crafts product pages for our site, as well as admiring the bookcases, I found myself delving into quite the history lesson.

The Arts & Crafts Crofter and Mission living room and office furniture collections gave me the chance to do a bit of research, and I was grateful for that. Certain contributors to the Arts and Crafts movement caught my attention, especially the late great Frank Lloyd Wright. T

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I inherited a front yard full of daffodils when I bought my house, and their numbers have been increasingly slowly for the past two decade. This year, the display seemed especially spectacular. There were so many yellow jonquils out front that I decided to cut some and bring them inside. The resulting display is below; there are somewhere around 40 daffodils in this vase, and it was a lush and cheerful bouquet for my office.

But maybe you don’t have hundreds of flowering bulbs in your yard — maybe you just have a handful. You can still cut a few to bring inside, and even a tiny arrangement can make an impact. I recently received a packet of ideas from the Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center, including suggestions for displaying cut bulbs indoors. Her

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Back in the early 1980s when I first got involved in the office chair market I thought that office chairs were all much the same. I did a deal with a manufacturer to market its chairs and ordered one of its top range models for myself. It was big and brash, kind of like an armchair on wheels and in a bright red fabric.

Two weeks later I went to visit the supplier’s factory to see the product being made and I was shocked. You see, I saw my chair being made and it wasn’t pretty. It largely consisted of a framework of cheap plywood which was held together with staples. Then soft spongy foam was stuck to the plywood and the whole mess was covered in fabric to hide its crude construction.

It was then I realized I needed to get serious and look a lot deeper into the whole issue of quality. The

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