Having been told that I would spend more on chairs than I did on my new table, I was prepared for the worst. But then Jen took me shopping and I somehow managed to buy 8 chairs for less than the expected $250,000. Here are some of the chairs we looked at.
If my living/dining room were a 300 sq/ft open space, I might have these chairs.
If I weren't shopping with a grown-up, I may have spent more time deliberating over the use of toy cars as dining chairs.
Could've found a set.
And then there were these Eames chairs. They were beautiful, reasonably priced and perennially in good taste, if a little wide for the table.
But they were also hella scuffed up. Jen got super-excited about these. And I felt that the surface damage might have worked, in a different home, or if I didn't already have a table of reclaimed wood. But It just wasn't a match.
I ain't like this chair. It makes me think of Edward James Olmos playing Iron Man. They have them at Dark Horse, on Spadina, where they look good in the big open space.
I ain't like this chair neither.
And as previously mentioned, grown-ups cannot use children's furniture, not matter HOW cute.
Now this I like. The Emeco chair, in plastic or metal.
Oh, the metal version, which is stunning, comfortable and light, is $600. I am not shilling out $4,800 of my hard-inherited money on a thing that people put their bums on.
Bullseye.
So long, $10 Ikea chairs that collapsed under the weight of Clay Ruby. On student row, these were gone in less than an hour.
A few days later, they showed up in big boxes.
Actually, I've got five of the eight so far.
You're going to be seeing more of these chairs. So get used to them.
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