May has been a bit of a month for slightly left of field chairs....I love the look of all of them, but being the world's worst fidget at the best of times, I'm not sure long I could sit still on any of them!
The Zigzag chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1932 [Design Museum]. All those lovely sharp yet unforgiving Modernist lines and corners.....
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The Wiggleside chair designed by Frank Gehra in 1972 [Design Museum]. It's made of layers of corrugated cardboard glued in different directions to give it strength. Knowing me the first thing I'd probably do is spill a glass of red vino over it.....now I'm wondering if that would make it dissolve into a lumpen pile of papier mache?!
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The Witches chair dating from the 1700s. My parents recently spent the weekend staying at the Mermaid Inn in Rye. Very obligingly they took a photo for me of the "goat's head chair" as I called it. However, it's not a goat's head, but Old Nick himself. It's said that it was once the property of a witches coven and is cursed. Most definitely wouldn't perch there then!
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The witches coven obviously had a good woodcarver in their number. It would be interesting to know if the cardboard chair had and 'bounce' to it - more art than furniture we assume. Mr T would love to shred it.
ReplyDeleteHumphrey is in complete agreement with Tigger on that one! Unfortunately I couldn't test out the theory of whether or not the chair was bouncy! Arilx
DeleteThey are interesting examples of places to rest a butt! The second one reminded me of Christmas ribbon candy.
ReplyDeleteI thought so too. My favourite is the goat/devil chair, although the one from 1932 is amazing in how modern it looks. Arilx
DeleteI'm a sucker for a quirky chair - it's probably just a well we haven't been to a car boot sale since 2019 or the house would be full of them! x
ReplyDeleteThey are rather eyecatching aren't they! Arilx
DeleteGreat blog
ReplyDeleteThank you. Arilx
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