Nothing of the most rare or valuable type, but I am very pleased to have found an Eames "loose cushion" desk chair today for $75. I have never seen one in person. I don't think they were made for too long. It's a great shape with no fabric stains or loosening. Brown hopsack with white shell and casters.
We really needed a second desk chair in our office. This one works swimmingly.
Too young
to have shopped at Design Research, in Cambridge. . .?
I remember how startling all that butted glass was, back in the day. Nice stuff inside, too
-- note Marimekko, Aalto. Sort of a US Conran, only more modern even.
Google says DR is back on Brattle Street, as of 2009. Same building ?
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Comfy, huh?
The loose cushion chair has always been the bastard step child to the classic armshell, but when you actually experience one the damn things are really comfortable.
I have even seen people put them on rocker bases. With the high back, extra padding and generous proportions, it's certainly tempting.
Texas was FULL of professionally designed spaces before...
the 70s oil crisis. Remember when all the skyscraper offices and penthouses were left empty?
I'm not surprised you'd find some nice things there.
I'd be looking around for some of the great plastic pieces used in the international design style.
SDR...
Now-a-days that's where Crate and Barrel lives....I always liked the building and I did know that DR had been there once upon a day. I'm sure that I must have gone in there as a kid, we used to take family shopping trips to Hahvahd Sq. at least a couple of times a year. Who know I may have made formative forays into modernism there!
Cambrdidge is one of the few Mass things I'm missing!
Olive,I lived there for 14 years-it's changed
Everything generic and geared for commercialism,the bohemian aspect is long gone,along with The Tasty,the Wursthaus and the Oxford Ale House.Just doesn't have any soul,especially since the House of Blues left for a more commercial area behind Fenway Park.So sad.
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