While fielding applause at her Symphony Center show on Friday, harpist Brandee Younger made a dazed confession. “I’m so sorry, I wasn’t thinking about the music just now,” she admitted.

‘It’s consumers that decide whether something’s going to turn into an icon,’ said SCP founder Sheridan Coakley when we asked him about the enduring success of the brand’s ‘Balzac’ chair back in 2021.