Any MCM furniturists got suggestions the Eames chair lounger. I've managed to finally lose the last child and am quickly turning his room into a library/reading room. The Eames is the ideal shape/position but it's become such a cliché I'm looking for a suitable alternative.
The G- Plan Blofeld chair...
http://www.vintagebrighton.com/2013/03/g-plan-re-launch-blofeld-chair/
http://www.filmandfurniture.com/2016/05/you-only-live-twice-chair-blofeld/
Once the current fad has died off it will still be the coolest chair out there.
They're on special offer at the Conran Shop
https://www.conranshop.co.uk/designers/charles-and-ray-eames.html
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Billax
https://www.etsy.com/shop/Lots2LikeAntiques?ref=l2-shopheader-name
I'd be very very happy with many of these.
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MCM, as you state, that chair really takes a lot of space to look 'well at home'. There's also Le Corbusier's LC4, if you like polished steel round your house.
Robin Day's chairs are gradually being reissued - I got the Case 375 reproduction and it is great. TwentyTwentyOne do licenced high quality recreations.
http://twentytwentyone.com/products/fur … nge-chairs
I would also love an Isokon Plus Breuer arm chair - I've got the rounded shelves and Donkey Mk3 of theirs.
I do have an Eames chair and footstool - not the Vitra version but a damn good impersonation and it really is hard to beat. With the recent change in UK copyright, it will soon mean that my chair and all copies are illegal and the Vitra source will likely be the only way to get an Eames chair in UK.
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I like a lot the Eames stuff. I've always wondered -- barring production costs -- how much of a premium one was paying for it. The costs really shot up in the last 20 years -- and that's ignoring the ol' complaint about things being cheaper back in the day. Cinema a nickel and what not. Anyway, I'd love to know more about production costs of a few of the pieces. Not enough to really find out. A different thing, but: I ran into a guy about 80+ years old who used to do wood work for Frank Gehry. A lot of work with ply and the like. His pricing was less but there was still a huge amount of skill and labor (and patience) that went into finish. I was stunned by how much time some shelving took. I've played around doing my own carpentry and confess I'm relatively horrible at it. But just the sanding, finishing, varnishing alone took about of month of work.
We'd have probably turned a chair like that round in a couple of days in the factory, given the metal parts coming in from a separate company. Cutting and frame making day one..upholstery and finishing day two. However that's not the same as a craftsmen doing it on his own without industrial processes obviously. I used to have to take apart a lot of these types of this style of metal frame chair from the US because your firelaws allow for furnishings to emit cyanide gas when they burn, unlike in the UK.
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I love the Womb chair but the price of it is off putting. I'm going to need two half reclined chairs within a year when the decent looking but quality lacking ones in my outside office go, currently thinking the Robin Day ones due to balance of quality, original and price.
Either this:
http://twentytwentyone.com/product/robin-day-avian-av1-armchair
or
http://twentytwentyone.com/product/reclining-chair-centenarybo
I could also go for the ace Isokon Plus ones. There isn't room in the space for the Breuer chair but what a marvellous item that is.
https://www.isokonplus.com/collections/seating-and-chairs
I should have a visit up to the Danish Homestore in the city here, always have interesting chair options. Here are their chairs in stock:
http://www.danish-homestore.com/acatalog/Vintage_danish_chairs-1-p1.html
If anyone was interested in items shown I can pop in, see them close up and send photos.
In the time I had to bring it together (now sadly passed for a while) I included a lot of chairs at the blog:
https://squareendknittedtie.tumblr.com/search/furniture
I would like a couple of Sylvia and John Reid S411 chairs they did for Stag but hard to find in a decent quality and priced pair and not reissued.
This little book may be a good primer:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/100-Midcentury-Chairs-Their-Stories/dp/1910904333
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George Mulhauser for Plycraft "MR. CHAIR"
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/8a/b2/db/8ab2db21a3ea3fc3ba5cdf86d0cc8338.jpg
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