Dear Forum,
I need some advice to find the 'right' sidetable for my Wassily's. The Breuer/ Tecta table on the picture does not work for me. What would you look for?
Before you ask, the Wassily's are not Knoll's, but (quite well excuted)reproductions. However, being bought by my grandmother around 1972, I will keep them..
My Wasily's are paired with...
A drum table in natural steel. My Womb chair is paired with an antique Native American chile mortar. I inverted it and it now looks very much like a Eames stool. However, it cost me $25USD and has a patina that the Eames pices can't possibly contribute. I think that kind of side table would also work well with a Wasily. To my eye the thing to avoid is too many legs. With all the tubular chrome it'll look too busy. A solid form is a better choice.
All this
delightfully illustrates how different people see things differently, and want different things -- that is, have different associations -- with a given piece or set of pieces of furniture -- and how, therefore, there is no "right answer" when it comes to selection and pairing.
What seems natural and inevitable to one, is "too much" (or "too little," or "too common" or "too bizarre" ?) to another.
Great stuff. . .
This brings up an interest point....
some 'classic iconic pieces'
(like the Eames Lounge Chair and ottoman,
Barcellona Chair
Wassily Chair
Eileen Gray round table
Saarinen tulip chairs and tables)
have become SUCH icons that I went out of my way to find quality living room furniture with a different spin. Instead of getting the Eames Lounge chair, I went for the Saarinen Grasshopper.
There's SOOOOOOOOOOO much good stuff to choose from (either new versions or vintage pieces), that you don't have to be quite as obvious (no offense).
I could've bought an ARCO lamp, but settled for the current Triennale-like lamp from Sonnoman.
Certainly my zebra-print Aalto tank chair is not anyone's first choice for a low chair, either.
Bottom line, there's a hundred perfectly appropriately nice tables to put next to your Wassily chair.
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