Kangaroo Chair  

I don't have one
.. but I wanted to for many years. The kangaroo chair was on my list of favorite designs that I wanted to own for a long time, I even had a close encounter where I just missed one at an antique show in the country (fancy flea market).
Well, I got over my desire once I had the opportunity to actually sit in one and experience it first hand. I think in a past post about the kangaroo chair I may have even said that it was uncomfortable. Well, that's not really true, but it is not the chair I hoped it would be.
I always regarded the kangaroo as Nelson's womb chair, and I guess I expected the scale and comfort to be on par with the womb chair as well, and it's not. The kangaroo is smaller than the womb chair (compare the dims, they are easy to find on line) and the seating posture is much different. Where the womb is a big, loungy, slouchy chair to really relax in, the kangaroo chair sits more upright and with much less pitch in the seat. Sitting in a kangaroo chair, I can imagine reading a newspaper or using it as a conversational chair, but it's not the kind of lounge chair you would want to kick back in and watch a movie.
I still think it's a spectacular design and there are many wonderful details, from the exposed frame, to the separate seat and back and the wing like arms (like Nelson's flying duck chair) but the limited use (I much prefer a lounge chair I can sit back and relax in) has diminished my desire to own one.

My kangaroo chair.
Hello,
I have attached a couple pics of a Kangaroo chair. I ounce owned. I hope it helps to give you some idea of scale.
One of my biggest regrets in my furniture collecting history was selling that chair. But hey I needed the money to pay for school so it went.
I loved that chair. To me visually the Kangaroo chair is one of the greatest lounge chair designs of all time. I have to agree with pegboard on the comfort side of things it could be more loungey. It is a little upright feeling, but still very comfortable.
PLEASE FORGIVE THE CARPET. IT WAS A CRAPPY COLLEGE APARTMENT WHAT CAN I SAY.

Just looking at it
It appears to be very upright indeed. Beautiful chair though. It would probably look weird if it was more reclined.

You had a Kangaroo chair and...
You had a Kangaroo chair and an Eames sofa when you were in college?! Your good taste started early, I see! Awesome.

Yes
Yes
I started collecting Herman Miller mostly and other Mid-Century when I was 17yrs old.

Very nice rozellglass
Too bad you had to sell it, and too bad you did not sell it to me. Though my desire for the chair has diminished, I would still like to have one.
Yours looks nice, was that the original Girard hopsack? The color is great, but I also really like when they are upholstered in a two tone manner:

woodywood
I'm not sure I agree with you. It does not take much of a pitch to make a seat considerably more relaxing, "loungy" or comfortable. I think that just extending the angle of the back legs or maybe even just shortening them a tad would have given the Kangaroo chair enough recline to make it much more comfortable. If the proportions were increased as well, it could be amazing. I find that if you take some of the weight off your bottom and shift it to your lower back (while supporting that lower back at the same time) a chair is much more comfortable for extended sitting.
I agree with rozelleglass' opinion of the aesthetics, it's a beautiful design. There are qualities the remind me of Wegner's papa bear, (the large imposing back over the relatively small truncated seat) of the Womb chair obviously, and of Finn Juhl's practice of making the seat and back two distinctly separate elements.
The only reasons I can think of for it's apparent lack of commercial success might have been it's unique progressive design and maybe it's limited use.

All original
My chair was all original and in near mint condition. It even had it's original paper tags.
I miss it.

hi im a student and need help
hi i am a student and i was wondering if you could take some pic of the kangaroo chair a top,side, and back view. Im creating a new design for the kangaroo chair and i would really appreciate the help

How about just creating an original design?
And leaving the Kangaroo alone.
"Designers"... sheesh

Any existing design
-- even a very well-known and revered one -- can be considered a prototype for future refinements or related new designs. You have to have something "down" on paper before you can improve it -- and a working model is even better !
Naturally, the new work can only bear the original name if it comes from the same hand . . . wouldn't you say ?

No, I wouldn't...
I would call that an unoriginal, pretentious rip off. It's one thing to approach an idea or concept with derivative influence. Quite another to think you're going to add to or improve upon a brilliant or even classic design. If you're that bloody good, why can't you come up with something from scratch?

maybe its
an assignment for a design class (?)
She didn't give us much to go on, other than to say she was a student.
If it is an assigned project to re design a classic (or re design a classic with issues) then it would be hard to fault her for doing her project.
Unless her name was Ray. Or she liked veal.