It's kind of a guy thing. As warm and inviting as a well-worn baseball mitt, this stylish object of adoration combines great design with an inventive use of materials. If you chance upon one of these chairs in a garage sale, it would reek of the owner's love for it as a refuge. And why shouldn't an ottoman be beautiful and comfortable as well. Designers Charles and Ray Eames understood that

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