There is a tiny photo of the...
There is a tiny photo of the chair only in the below link.The ottoman is a large square cushion on a similar swivel base.I bought it about ten years ago for £800 and Im guessing it is still not worth that yet but I run a film prop hire business and it generally makes more than it cost per annum.
http://www.artfact.com/catalog/viewLot.cfm?lotCode=GW0WLD5V
Iconoclast
I'll be the advocate for Satan. Somebody's got to be. This question has quite frankly been way overthought. I grew up in Mother's 18th century Cogswell chair w/down cushions and horsehair padding in the arms. In it's day it was considered terribly modern. Overall a good sit. I also liked Dad's big ass 1960's leather "mens" lounge chair from Marshall Field & Co (Chicago) also quite a good sit. Since then I've sat in most of the chairs mentioned above and they virtually all suffer the same weakness (for me personally). They try to make you "sit" in a particular way that they (or more correctly their designer) has decided you should want sit. I don't much care for any of them. After years of experience and unlimited choices I've settled on this unassuming lounge from 1940 by Conant Ball. Not the more collectable Russell Wright chair but their own later internal design based on the same steam bent maple technology and big foam cushions.
Perhaps surprisingly it lets me sit comfortably slouched to snooze, laid back to read, upright to engage guests in conversation & drink or just to plop down hard at the end of a long day, enjoy my view (and a Winston when I still smoked, sigh) and take my shoes off. It the best sit I've sat in and cost, even with new upholstery, a tiny fraction of what even the cheapest of the chairs above cost. I think I win 😉
This is actually a great...
This is actually a great topic, as I think many people would be surprised at how unaccomodating a lot of modern chairs are; more like sculpture, where function takes a back seat.
However, I will attest that the tilt feature on the Jacobsen egg, (introduced in 1984 I believe), was really a quantum improvement for the comfort of this chair. Can't imagine getting comfortable in one without it. Sling one leg into a nook, and one arm up over a wing, and kick back. Or, kick your feet up on the coffee table when nobody's looking and you're really in business.
The Wegner Ox always looked cozy to me, but I've never had the pleasure...
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After we recovered these with new foam, I find these shell chairs to be very comfortable.
My cat Ethel will verify how comfortable they are that is her favorite chair,
The fabrics, if interested all by Maharam , designed by Alexander Girard, they are Miller stripe in front, toots stripe in back , and Jacobs coat, all great
the most unconfortable sofa
I could not resist posting this sofa We recovered this one 6 months ago i bought it at a auction it was from the 50's and i am sure the new ones that Herman Miller is selling to day our a little more comfortable, although i don't know how , We stripped this down to nothing then recovered with Girard fabric and answer form , and it is by far the most un comfortable sofa i have ever sat in . I have no idea what the
Eames were thinking . It is not just me everyone who tried it out felt the same that it is a cool looking sofa but not for comfort, YES .... I know it is a compact sofa but even with that name it should have some comfort to it. George Nelsons Marsh mellow sofa is at least comfortable to sit in as a chair.
Depends where...
At the computer: my split backed Grahl with disks for elbow rests and the most adjustable seat cushion in history. I cannot understand why the split back never proliferated. It just beats heck out of every other single piece chair back design I've ever tried.
EZ chair: still looking. I've never found one I like enough to live with, though I've yet to sit in Wegner's Ox, which my intuition tells me is my chair of destiny.
robert 1960
I notified photobucket and they said put a big after posting pictures they are not suppose to be links. just replies that show up as links ... something they said with the upload process . hopefully this will work if it works let me know. so we can try something else if it does not , i am sure all readers would like to use photobucket if it is easy.
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