A Thing for Chairs
Have I always had a thing for chairs? I’m not sure! I visited the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorate Art in Denver several years ago, they had a great chair exhibition. They had the most iconic of chairs: the Heart Cone chair, the Ribbon chair, the Cordoba (which you may remember (if you watched Mad Men) in Roger Sterling’s office), and well off my imagination went.
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I do have some of these iconic chairs. I’d need a bigger flat to have more – don’t think I didn’t think that thought. I did discover today that a pair of chairs I found by the magic chair* may be Milo Boughmans or Boughman inspired at least – that would explain their good looks.
Visit our Pinterest Chair Board to see more.
*The magic chair is a chair in the elevator lobby of the garage. People bring to it things they no longer want. Could be the subject of a post. It’s the 2nd R isn’t it reduce, reuse, recycle, recover.
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