That chair thing
I think I'm going through a chair phase again, and it's the usual suspects on the wishlist: Eames, Jacobsen... I'm seriously digging the Eames Chair on the right, and one of these days I'll hunt down a store in Perth with them on display so I can find out just how comfortable they are (I'm told very, despite the looks).
There's a design-is-problem-solving rant there, and anyone who's heard the story about our design class' trip to the Vitra chair exhibition years ago knows how it ends. I'll save everyone else the pain and move on quickly.
Yesterday I discovered that the new Woodside offices in Perth have continued the fine trend of having beautiful but expensive designer chairs in the foyers of office blocks. Across the road in QV1 you can sit in the stunning but pricey and surprisingly uncomfortable Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe, and variations on the Barcelona bench are everywhere.
The Woodside offices? They've made it into my good books by having pods of red Egg chairs in the foyer. I might have to stop by and pass out in a puddle of drool sometime.
Most of my friends are convinced that one day I'll sell all my worldly possessions and they'll come around to my place to discover an empty house with a rug, a B&O stereo and a solitary egg chair.
Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 and filed under Life.
Hey Simon,
Try Design Farm, at the far end of Murray Street, West Perth. I'm sure I've seen them there :)
Posted by: mik on February 26, 2004