This famed architecture firm is bringing rare designs from its archive back to life

IBM easy chairs. Halston tubular tables. SOM dug into its archives and is making some of its best furniture commercially available. Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, the giant of corporate office architecture in the mid-20th century, has its fingerprints on some of the most iconic buildings in American business. From Sears Tower in Chicago to IBM’s New York headquarters to Lever House in midtown Manhattan, these towers became skyline definers, and symbols of postwar American economic power.