Recently just sold my 670/671 so now have an empty space to fill. Over the last few months it has been occupied by a number of different Pierre Paulin chairs, the mentioned 670, a Panton relaxer, some Danish offerings from Wanscher and Wegner. I'd really like something special & I don't have a limited budget - please fire away with the options!!!
Two chairs I really like are the Hans Olsen Bikini (which would be too small)and Kjaerholm's PK20.
I am not an interior designer
but it seems to me that the Kjaerholm PK20 requires a very coherent almost minimalist environment, whereas the Bikini is a more tolerant, friendlier design that would fit better with your other choices. I might be spreading some heresy here but I find that stainless or chromed frames do better on a wooden, stone or tile floor and wood does better on carpet. Another reason to choose the Bikini.
As a design I prefer the PK20 but...
I agree with
Koen's material pairings. Could this be a generational thing ? It's justifiable I think but just feels intuitive to me.
I've never seen the Russel Wright chair ! How funny to compare it to Aalto (for instance). It has the earnest modernity and slight awkwardness of some "Early American Modern" -- shared with Jens Risom (later), perhaps, and Gilbert Rohde (earlier) ? It took a while for Saarinen and Eames, and others, to get us up to speed.
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Russell Wright vs Gilbert Rhode
This very chair, from 1935, is one of the first truly "modern" pieces of American furniture design.
Gilbert Rhode had the right idea but he couldn't resist adding a bit of fluff. Granted the fluff was made of modern materials or exotic woods, but it's still fluff.
His designs are often beautiful, sumptuous even, but very rarely modern. I think Wright on the other hand succeeded in creating something truly modern. Maybe not great modern but certainly good and from years of personal experiece a damn comfy chair for a large man (6'4" 195). I used to sit in an 18th century cogswell chair my mother gave me just because it was deep enough my knees didn't stick out in space.
NickR6TY, does the chair need...
NickR6TY, does the chair need to match the space as it is without furniture? Or, does it have to go with the furniture that is there already?
I don't like the Lounge Chair & Ottoman in that interior very much. It clashes conceptually with the other pieces of furniture. In fact all the pieces of furniture you have in the room don't go with one another. I think you should keep just one piece of your choice and start from there.
I'd be tempted to go for...
I'd be tempted to go for something 'hard' and light to offset the deep (Bellini?) settee - and something light enough that you can move easily so you can close the door! A Paimio? (except if you bought new you'd have to put up with gloopy Artek finish). Got £30,000 for for a Summers lounge chair? (no nor me!).A Breuer B35 would look peachy. And btw ignore whoever said nothing 'goes'in your room (is it becuase the cabinet and sofa were made a whole 50 years apart I wonder?) and having had a number of Lady chairs I can honestly say that for a small armchair they are both very heavy and very uncomfortable.
Thank you for the feedback...
Thank you for the feedback so far. I like the Breuer B35 and Paimio ideas a lot!
The sofa is actually modern, as is the chest obviously (which incidently will be changed to something rosewood and Danish along with my plasma screen cabinet).
Keep the ideas coming. I should add there is some chrome in the room (an arc lamp + the frame of my BelArti table) hence why I like the Aalto chair.
Isokon short chair?
Isokon short chair?
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1331_modernism/files/93/1935_lo...
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