The perfect chairs for Gil's transparent floored hallway!
HOT! so Jetsons.
Hopefully, a passing fad ...
Chairs that basically do not block a view will ALWAYS find a home in Manhattan. That funhouse-mirror effect of how anything on the other side of these would look would be just fantastic. THIS is quite a majorly wonderful "neutral" piece of furniture that would give rock-'em-sock'em ooph to lots of different kinds of decors.
Meanwhile, I absolutely couldn't love their name more. Irwin & Estelle? I would always invite guests to sit on Irwin & Estelle.
It's flippin' lucite.
It's plastic, it's cheap-looking, it's not terribly strong, it'll scratch, it'll discolour. And it can't be fixed.
Oh, and it's expensive and trendy.
Ugh. I have the same reaction to this as to women wearing lucite high heels. "Cheap & in poor taste."
"Ugh. I have the same reaction to this as to women wearing lucite high heels. "'Cheap & in poor taste.'"
OK, non-design related, but Dolly Parton was recently interviewed on NPR; she told of when she was a child, when her mom would take her into town, at which time she would often see the town trollop, all decked out in her finery. Dolly said, "you know, for a five year old mountain girl, seeing this lady with all this beautiful blond hair and red lips and nails, and tight short skirts, it was just like the most beautiful thing in the world to me. She even had platform shoes with plastic heels with goldfish inside them!"
"I would stare at her, and my mama would say, 'oh, don't mind her - she's just trash.' And I thought to myself 'TRASH. That's what *I* wanna be when I grow up, TRASH.'"
Dolly. Gotta love her, despite the horrifying new plastic surgery. "Jolene" alone makes her godlike.
and re: the chairs:
i agree, partially with fred. they will scratch like crazy, and will look *horrible* unless they are anything more than "look-don't-touch" pieces, or only in the homes of the fitlhy (nouveau) riche who can toss them after a few months. although i think they're beautiful - pass.
(and wouldn't it *really* be great design if someone came up with a way to get this aesthetic in something one could acutally use as a - gasp - chair?)
I remember hearing that interview with Dolly Parton, and that story was my FAVORITE part of it ... now I look at anything "trashy" in a whole new way!
:)
i never knew till AT how lucite can divide people, it always seems to. i think they're divine. (more on the lucite heels: at a screening of a Tammy Faye Baker fighting cancer docu, the audience burst into laughter and applause when the camera cut to a shot of her lucite heels tottering along to a crucial appointment; more grist for the lucite mill i suppose.)
I think these are just fab. . . but then I already have the Stark ghost chairs, so maybe I am a lucite junky.
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The perfect chairs for Gil's transparent floored hallway!
HOT! so Jetsons.
Hopefully, a passing fad ...
Chairs that basically do not block a view will ALWAYS find a home in Manhattan. That funhouse-mirror effect of how anything on the other side of these would look would be just fantastic. THIS is quite a majorly wonderful "neutral" piece of furniture that would give rock-'em-sock'em ooph to lots of different kinds of decors.
Meanwhile, I absolutely couldn't love their name more. Irwin & Estelle? I would always invite guests to sit on Irwin & Estelle.
It's flippin' lucite.
It's plastic, it's cheap-looking, it's not terribly strong, it'll scratch, it'll discolour. And it can't be fixed.
Oh, and it's expensive and trendy.
Ugh. I have the same reaction to this as to women wearing lucite high heels. "Cheap & in poor taste."
"Ugh. I have the same reaction to this as to women wearing lucite high heels. "'Cheap & in poor taste.'"
OK, non-design related, but Dolly Parton was recently interviewed on NPR; she told of when she was a child, when her mom would take her into town, at which time she would often see the town trollop, all decked out in her finery. Dolly said, "you know, for a five year old mountain girl, seeing this lady with all this beautiful blond hair and red lips and nails, and tight short skirts, it was just like the most beautiful thing in the world to me. She even had platform shoes with plastic heels with goldfish inside them!"
"I would stare at her, and my mama would say, 'oh, don't mind her - she's just trash.' And I thought to myself 'TRASH. That's what *I* wanna be when I grow up, TRASH.'"
Dolly. Gotta love her, despite the horrifying new plastic surgery. "Jolene" alone makes her godlike.
and re: the chairs:
i agree, partially with fred. they will scratch like crazy, and will look *horrible* unless they are anything more than "look-don't-touch" pieces, or only in the homes of the fitlhy (nouveau) riche who can toss them after a few months. although i think they're beautiful - pass.
(and wouldn't it *really* be great design if someone came up with a way to get this aesthetic in something one could acutally use as a - gasp - chair?)
I remember hearing that interview with Dolly Parton, and that story was my FAVORITE part of it ... now I look at anything "trashy" in a whole new way!
:)
i never knew till AT how lucite can divide people,
it always seems to.
i think they're divine.
(more on the lucite heels: at a screening of a Tammy Faye Baker fighting cancer docu, the audience burst into laughter and applause when the camera cut to a shot of her lucite heels tottering along to a crucial appointment; more grist for the lucite mill i suppose.)
I think these are just fab. . . but then I already have the Stark ghost chairs, so maybe I am a lucite junky.
This is my dream chair.