The aim of this study is to provide insight to the concept of furniture, and its everchanging connotations, as a prominent category of design. In this respect. Mackintosh’s Ladderback chair, being renowned as a classic piece, offers the means for description of such transfiguration process through time, culture and place. This comparative study, of its initial context and contemporary implications, intends to reveal the reasons of its esoteric composition as well as the meanings and intentions for its selection within contemporary interiors. Thus, this aspect will also bring forth tendencies regarding furniture production and acquisition in Turkey, particularly after the 80’s.