The Furniture de Lux is based on the design of an old chair Bell found in a thrift store in 1965. The chair’s profile appeared to be exactly one quarter of the forty-degree ellipse that he had worked with in the early cubes. Conceived of as part of a larger environment including his Corner Lamps and Standing Walls, the series of furniture was designed by Bell and built in the early 1980s by woodworker Ed Paul and upholsterer David Steiner. All Furniture de Lux combine Carpathian elm burl and cotton velvet.