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Hot or Not? reDO Chair

2008-05-06-redo.jpg

High End Recycle of a Lowly Folding Chair Frame
with Leather Straps and Hardwood Arms

 
 

By Plodes Studio, available at Greener Grass Design for $2500.

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I think it's hot! But it's the price, not the heat, that prevents me from touching it!

posted by Michael W. on May 6th 2008 at 6:40am
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Would be even better if the leather straps were in a brown tone that matched the wood arms.

posted by readingglasses on May 6th 2008 at 6:42am
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It would have been cheaper if they'd used that Kirei board to make an all new chair...

posted by bepsf on May 6th 2008 at 6:42am
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Great idea, but it looks cheap in the photo!

posted by visualingual on May 6th 2008 at 6:42am
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$2500?!? That is an outrageous amount of money. There is no amount of leather and wood that justifies that price.

posted by brenjay on May 6th 2008 at 6:45am
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You have to be kidding me. $2500 for that?
Sure it's nice, but there is no lawn chair on the planet worth that kind of coin.

posted by Melissa82 on May 6th 2008 at 6:52am
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I'm pretty sure that just old-fashioned recycling of that aluminum frame would have been "greener" than adding a bunch of leather to it. The description on the site doesn't say how the leather was made, but I think it's kind of a yucky chemical mess.

posted by EP on May 6th 2008 at 7:02am
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Modern butt waffles! How retro!
Let me get my kiddie pool set up on the front lawn!

posted by darcidoodle on May 6th 2008 at 7:32am
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too tacky for indoors, too hot and sweaty for lawn furniture

posted by mrs yow on May 6th 2008 at 7:59am
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I didn't realize at first that it was leather. Yuckola.

posted by jonathon on May 6th 2008 at 8:56am
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It's hot, but like $40 hot, not $2500 hot.

T8
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posted by t8 on May 6th 2008 at 9:15am
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I prefer Jason Miller's Lawn Chair.

http://www.millerstudio.us/

posted by K T G on May 6th 2008 at 10:54am
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That price tag must be a typo, maybe $25.00 is the correct price. Even then I would expect change.

posted by bobbin on May 6th 2008 at 11:41am
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I might expect this to be sold at Wal-Mart as a novelty item. The $2500 price tag blows my mind.

posted by jackie_22 on May 6th 2008 at 12:52pm
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"A stitched leather silhouette of the once web, new hardwood armrests, and mirror polished frame not only redefines the chair’s physical presence, but also its identity. No longer bound by the outdoors and stereotypes, reDO is elevated to kin chairs with roots in Bauhaus modernism."


Oh hahaha hahahhaaaa... HAHAHHHAAAAHAHAHAHha.

...if you say so!

posted by K T G on May 7th 2008 at 4:35am
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NOT hot at that price for a lawn chair! i am all for paying for quality... but that is just laughable.

posted by closertotheocean on May 8th 2008 at 7:10am
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definitely NOT HOT for that price!

posted by mvastudios on June 19th 2008 at 8:37am
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no way - looks cheap and tacky. wafflebutt city! and leather outdoor chairs - no way! there is a reason these are usually made out of something lighter.

posted by nikki moore - photography and vintage treasures on September 6th 2009 at 3:58pm
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