The appearance of this chair usually meant a vague, unexamined sense of solidarity with the Black Panthers. As for the chair and sofa - well.

There’s just no reason for that pattern to exist. None.

The fact that some deluded dolts might buy it on a designer’s say-so is no excuse - the creator of this chair ought to have realized what a dull sin this pattern represented, and burned the sketches before they made it to the loom.