11.01.01
I keep getting designer furniture catalogues in the mail.
Catalogues with stuff like Eero Saarinen furniture, B&B Italia, and things made by Knoll and the Eames.
Perhaps it is the fact that I subscribe to Elle Decor, House & Garden, Metropolitan Home, Town & Country, Martha Stewart Living, and W.
Someone somewhere has gotten the mistaken impression that I'm a wealthy socialite with money to blow on overpriced home decor.
I just happen to like free magazines and pretty things that aren't within my financial realm of possibility.
Sue me.
Today, I was flipping through the Designs Within Reach catalogue when I stumbled across this chair. I thought to myself, "Hey, that looks remarkably like the chair sitting in front of my desk, except mine is orange."
So, I got up, flipped my chair over, and lo and behold, it is my chair.
Except mine is old.
And orange.
And circa Sept 25, 1973, '75 or '78. (I can't quite make out the last digit on the date of the label.)
Here's what dwr.com has to say on the subject of my chair:
"After opening his own office in 1954, David Rowland pursued numerous experiments in minimal seating with the goal of accomodating large numbers of people. These exercises culminated with the much lauded 40/4 Chair, designed in 1963 and was immediately awarded the grand prize at the prestigous Milan Triennale the next year. Designed as a solution for flexible, stackable seating and executed with a graphic sleekness, 40 chairs can be stacked in a four-foot high space."
That's pretty cool, considering my old roomie Heatha got it for 3 bucks at the Budget Shop, and gave it to me when she moved.
And to think, I just liked it because it was orange.
