Against Chairs is a simply delightful article:

I hate to piss on the party, but chairs suck. All of them. No designer has ever made a good chair, because it is impossible. Some are better than others, but all are bad. Not only are chairs a health hazard, they also have a problematic history that has inextricably tied them to our culture of status-obsessed individualism. Worse still, w’ve become dependent on them and it’s not clear that w’ll ever be free.

It also boasts one of the better opening lines I’ve seen in a while. I won’t spoil it for you.