Born out of a kind of spontaneous combustion of Art Deco, Modern and Scandinavian styles, Heywood-Wakefield furniture was everyman’s furnishings in the ’40s and ’50s. Young marrieds bought ...

The Heywood-Wakefield Furniture Company began when five brothers from Gardener, Mass., began to build chairs in their barn. I wrote about the history of the company in a March 24 column.