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Hunting for Equipales in Mexico

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Finding an ancient chair design in the modern world
TEXT AND PHOTOS BY TOR FAEGRE

Zacoalco de Torres is a small town, just south of Guadalajara, set on a flat lake plain surrounded by low mountains of scrub forest and agave fields. I came here to find the fabled “Montezuma's chair,” the equipal. As I entered the… »