Like a Nelson Coconut, but better!  

Right...
You don't know what the hell you're talking about.

Perfection
That's awesome, Whitespike... I've always felt the early Nelson chair was too light and sterile, yet this version has weight and warm emotional appeal. The legs say "here to stay," whereas Nelson's first draft always seemed somehow distant, impermanent. Good job finding this. It's really perfect.

I believe in a previous thread, Riki
had already ID'd the designer as G. di Fruitta.
See the laughably crap replica thread for the analysis.

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Do you think it's real leopard skin?

Hmmm - is that a irony...
Hmmm - is that a irony failure from Lunchbox - or is he being ironic?

Did you mean from Lunchbox,...
Did you mean from Lunchbox, or from Brent, paulanna? I don't see irony in the Lunchbox comment, but would have maybe if he'd just written "right" sans the addition. And the comment from Brent I guess seems possibly more cagey or satirical than ironic to me, engaging nonetheless. I'm dense when it comes to all things postmodern, especially irony and satire. Cleanup on aisle five: failure of irony.
Perhaps the Lunchbox comment was a failure to recognize irony in the initial post, but I doubt it. More likely it was/is a minor issue with execution, or, ah ha, I now see/saw - as you say and/or said - a failure of irony.

No rockybird...
in keeping with tradition, I think it is actually UNBORN leopard skin which makes it all the more valuable.