Expensive correlates to quality. Antiques are probably durable. When you buy a piece of furniture, you should really, really like it. That way, you won't mind having it around for ten, twenty or thirty years.
Let me add, you should not have young children and, later, teenagers who jump on it, sleep on it, put their sweating beverages on it, put their sweating feet on it, spill crumbs on it, spill Coke on it, cry, bleed and blow their noses on it, rock back in it, lean on it, sit on it (when it's a table), put their plates on it (when it's a sofa), and use it as a napkin.
All of that is completely irrelevant to today's item, which the kids never had a crack at. Rich bought it because he thought it would be useful in the studio, where guitar players might prefer to lean against a stool rather than sitting down. But no one preferred it, and it got moved downstairs into the foyer where it gets in the way. It appears to have been made in the 60s; its wood and black metal design fits in with our aesthetic at the Dow-designed botanical gardens. It's there now; if we can't find a use for it, it will go to Property Disposition and we'll get a few bucks for it.
Rich and I were just a temporary custodian.
It is damned uncomfortable! Would make a good dunce cap chair.
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