Chandigarh Chairs + Design Crime.

Seitz, P. “Square Pegs in Round Holes: Designed Objects and Cultural Property Markets,” transfer: Journal for Provenance Research and the History of Collection 5, no. 1 (2026, Forthcoming).



Seitz, P., Thandapani, N., and Wittrick, G. “The $300,000 table: How markets for design (mis)shape our understandings of people, places, and things,” Systemic Cultures of Design: Select Proceedings of the ICDHS14 6 (Forthcoming).


Seitz, P. “A discipline that sat on its treasures, but didn’t see them: Leveraging online auction data for design historical research.” In Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects,‍‍ ‍edited by Emiline Smith and Summer Austin. Springer Nature (2025): 261-288.


Seitz, P., Thandapani, N., and Wittrick, G. “Design crime in context: Mass-manufactured design, design-as-art, and Chandigarh’s modernist furniture.” In Art Crime in Context, edited by Naomi Oosterman and Donna Yates. Springer Nature (2022): 25-44.


Seitz, P., Thandapani, N., and Wittrick, G. “Modernist Design: From Chandigarh to Christies’,” EPOCH, July 1, 2021, https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/modernist-design-from-chandigarh-to-christies.

Commercial Office Architecture.

Seitz, P. “A more perfect union: A labour process theory reevaluation of partnerships in workplace research,” Proceedings of the Fifth Transdisciplinary Research Network Conference (2026): 647-658.


Seitz, P. “A ‘facility based on change’ (for the worse): Leveraging labor process theory to understand the evolution of Herman Miller’s Action Office.” In Behind Office Doors: Histories of Uses and Users of Office Buildings, edited by Jens van de Maele. KU Leuven (2026): 223-248.


Seitz, P. “Dreaming of a Better Office: Architecture and Labor,” Networking Knowledge 16, no. 1 (2023): 91-100.


Seitz, P. “The office is dead, long live the office: The coronavirus pandemic and the future of office spaces,” Pandemic Perspectives 2021: Reflections on the Post-COVID World Conference Proceedings (2022): 74-80. DOI: 10.5334/uproc.61.