A chair affair
Friday 4th July, 2008 - 02:51 PM
Deputy editor Neil learns that you can't always get what you want...
Turn your back for five minutes in our house and I swear, the chairs start breeding. Jacobsen Ants and Butterflies, a Matthew Hilton Balzac, two (count 'em) Eames office chairs, a le Corbusier chaise longue, and two Designers Guild tub chairs have all taken up residence, meaning there's always somewhere to perch.
What we were short of though was a decent sofa. Somewhere to lounge. Since moving two years ago, the brown leather sofa bed that was perfect in the old laid-back and slouchy living room, just isn't quite right in our clean-lined, modernist front room. So a few Sundays ago we headed off to the special place where unwanted furniture waits to be given a good home, aka The Modern Warehouse.
We'd heard they had a Stouby in stock, just begging to go to the right home. Stouby was a well-known and well-regarded Danish furniture maker in the 1960s and 1970s and, in theory, we were pretty sure they'd have just what we were looking for.
Fast forward half an hour and we're folding down the back seat of the car so we could squeeze in… a designer chair. I know, I know. Didn't take to the Stouby sofa. But the minute I saw the 1960s original fibreglass Eames Rocker, in the reasonably rare (but rather gorgeous) shade of Sea Foam, well, it was love at first sight.
Still searching for the sofa that will make our home complete. But till then, we're very happy with our ever-growing family of chairs, however dysfunctional.
Neil McLennan,
Deputy editor
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What we were short of though was a decent sofa. Somewhere to lounge. Since moving two years ago, the brown leather sofa bed that was perfect in the old laid-back and slouchy living room, just isn't quite right in our clean-lined, modernist front room. So a few Sundays ago we headed off to the special place where unwanted furniture waits to be given a good home, aka The Modern Warehouse.
We'd heard they had a Stouby in stock, just begging to go to the right home. Stouby was a well-known and well-regarded Danish furniture maker in the 1960s and 1970s and, in theory, we were pretty sure they'd have just what we were looking for.
Fast forward half an hour and we're folding down the back seat of the car so we could squeeze in… a designer chair. I know, I know. Didn't take to the Stouby sofa. But the minute I saw the 1960s original fibreglass Eames Rocker, in the reasonably rare (but rather gorgeous) shade of Sea Foam, well, it was love at first sight.
Still searching for the sofa that will make our home complete. But till then, we're very happy with our ever-growing family of chairs, however dysfunctional.
Neil McLennan,
Deputy editor
For more blog entries from the Livingetc team, visit livingetc.com/blogs