Rapson Rocker  

Here's One
for you

Converso
Chicago dealer Lawrence Converso just got one. He'll give it to you... for $6500.
http://1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=293472

NY Times Obit...6G is a bargain
"....In 1939 at Cranbrook, Mr. Rapson designed a prototype of a streamlined yet whimsical bentwood rocking chair. Knoll Associates introduced it on the retail market as a solid-wood version called the Rapson Rapid Rocker in 1945. Frank Lloyd Wright bought two for $99.50 each. In a full-page ad in The New York Times, Bloomingdale's promoted the chair as an "innovative and attractive modern take on a traditional piece."
Today vintage Rapson rockers can fetch as much as $8,000. A brand-new updated version is also marketed by the Wieler company under the supervision of Mr. Rapson's firm..."

DIY
Step One: Buy Risom Lounge Chair.
Step Two: Craft rocker base with integrated armrests.
Step Three: Attach.
Step Four: Enjoy.

I almost bought one off ebay...
I almost bought one off ebay I guess it was about two years ago now. It was the woven strapped edition in off white. Absolutely gorgeous. As I recall, it only went for around $1200. Shit.

Step Five
Ebay. List fuzzy pix, "as found", "No returns", "No reserve", Skip town.

Architects design
cool furniture. The same disciplines -- promoting order, rational structure, and inventive form -- that mark good architecture, are applied with equal success to furniture, perhaps. Architects, as a group, seem to possess a "design DNA," individually or collectively, that lends itself to the making of elegant and carefully-considered three-dimensional objects. Perhaps it's just the patience which they must possess in order to see a building project through, from the statement of the problem, through the design process and then the agonizing torture that construction can entail -- all the while that the aesthetic payoff is endlessly postponed and delayed. Don't try this at home !
I suppose any designer knows some of the same agonies and ecstasies. Koen ?