FurnitureStrut version 478.0
ako
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ok, so its moving-out week around this here college town, and college kids love throwing shit away, being the scavenger i am ive been going dumpster diving every night and found this cute lil number:
can anybody tell me what they know about it? its in like perfect shape, i cant believe it was just sitting on the side of the road. really heavy too.
can anybody tell me what they know about it? its in like perfect shape, i cant believe it was just sitting on the side of the road. really heavy too.
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being that you found it during college town move out week - I think it's safe to assume it's def something new....like mid century knock off joint. could even be from Ikea...
It's a chair, orange and chrome color, probably stolen from the waiting area of a nail salon or barber shop by a drunk kid.
It looks distinctly to me like an orange chair that you found in the dumpster.
hope that helps.
don't listen to em g......I used to find ill shit in Boston because for the most part, people there have no taste....so they'd throw out all these crazy mid century functional office chairs and whatnot.....that's def the place for it....
(throwing gas on my personal boooooo for Boston fire strut just because I like bein a bit of a dipshit).
i see a lot of shit that LOOKS like this, theres a surplus of old office furniture and school shit, and none of it would go anywhere near my home, its all shit. but this chair is fuckin nice and solid and heavy and decent, its not some classic piece of furniture, its probably not an eames creation or some knoll shit, but somebody on here might know something about it. im not looking to make money here, im looking to learn about what i just found.
if you think its a "knock-off" from ikea, then whats it a knock-off of?
im just curious.
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I stand by what I said. I used to go to a barber shop that had very similar chairs, it was a nice shop and I'm assuming the shits were heavy though I never had occasion to hoist one as I am a respected member of my community who rarely gets trifled with (besides my recent stolen plants, doesn't count) (yes if a scuffle brews I instinctively grab a nearby weapon) (i'm still pissed about those plants).
Maybe you'll get an answer when the weekday crowd comes back around, i remember there were a few people on here who knew a lot about furniture but I can't recall who they were. Sorry I couldn't ID it for you, but I hope you get laid on it either way.
My couch is a Natuzzi, microfiber, if you're ever on Long Island you're more than welcome to sleep on it.
You can then google that, see what else comes up.
If not that, you can check if there any furniture dealers in the area who specialize in mid-century furniture, and bring them a picture.
My wife brought an appraiser a photo of a chest of drawers her parents had sitting around...
Estimated price? $25,000.
here we go. thanks!
hah, yeah im not doubting it might have been, sorry about that nature of that post, i was in a fuckin horrible mood all day today.
wife and i just balled out on our first major purchase, which is the stellar fucking desk I am typing on right now. not to mention that it took all my drunken will power not to write a LENGTHY ode to the St. louis arch on here after just traveling to the 'lou.
Man, that arch is fucking incredible. Mid 20th century design at its finest.
i grew up in a college town, and did plenty of dumpster diving in my time. my favorite was when my friend Mike found an answering machine, and took it home. Plugged it in, played it, and heard...'Hey, you've reached Mike. Leave a message at the beep.'
He kept it for 5 years; never changed the message.
it looks like a orange chair that a college boy has been sitting nude and been masturbatin in every night the last two years
and you know this how?
Eero Saarinen is the man behind it, who incidentally is the genius behind some of the best chairs in the 20th century.
ako - sorry I can't id this one for you.
But I like what fredfades said, you'll have that image in your mind for now on.
Your balls would sweat like nothing else?
There is nothing wrong with having a nice-looking chair that's well made but from the last 10 years or so. Just stick in your trades pile when you og up.
I'm one of the furniture fiends here. Just because the vinyl is in great shape doesn't mean the chair is a repro/retro type. If it was inside and wasn't used very often that vinyl could stay mint for decades. Because it carries some weight is a good sign, too. No idea who it's by, but I'll try and remember to take a look through some vintage chair books I've got.
I got this exact chair for my vanity...for free.
thats how I roll...lol
word, thrift shop pick up last week. I looked like a gotdam parade float rolling down the freeway with it strapped to the room of my Neon
most of the cloth on the underside is missing...so maybe its not perfect, but the parts you see look pretty damn good, aside from some minor rust spots on the bottom parts. either way, the label is gone, that was the first thing i checked for when i got it home.
I'm partial to his womb chair:
As I was rattling on about the arch, and saarinen's work, best believe the folls i was traveling with got b-0-r-e-d.
Fuck 'em, though. That arch is beautiful.
Eliel Saarinen's work is amongst the classics of Finnish architecture. He did lots of jugend-styled buildings. And he worked in the States also.