Sorry, I am exhausted and in too much of a fugue state to research prior threads for an answer to this question. I'm at Lille Braderie and some dude has a womb chair, no ottoman, in horrible shape for sale for 800 Euros, which is around 1100 USD. Lloyd, it needs to be totally reupholstered from the ground up. Doesn't this seem high to y'all?
My husband, whom I have dragged here to drive the truck and basically schlep a bunch of stuff around with promises of future sexual favors, is balking at buying the chair. He is like, you want me to pay WHAT for that disgusting piece of furniture?
Bottom line, I really want it but I think 800 EU is alot for a piece that needs to be totally restored. Help, LRF!
I concur
If prices in France are at all comparable to prices in the USA, that's WAY too much -- like two or three times too much -- to pay for a chair that needs to be completely (and expensively) reupholstered.
And... Even if you manage to buy and reupholster it for a reasonable price, when you're done you'll wish you also had the ottoman.
Pass. Keep looking. Knoll's been making those chairs for 50 years; there are LOTS of them in the world. You'll find a better one.
$1100 is a very good deal.
A mint Womb chair with ottoman rarely sells for so little unless the pool of buyers is very small and/or the seller needs cash right away (e.g., a dealer is buying it, or it's being advertised on Craigslist Wyoming or something).
Where'd you see the $1100 Womb?
It was at a midcentury...
It was at a midcentury auction maybe a month ago. Honestly, I was shocked to see it go for so little, but point is, there are deals out there. I think at the same auction there was a mint bird chair w/ ottoman that went for around $850 or so.
Either would've been mine, had I actually the space in my apartment for another lounge chair.
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