I vote FUG! Where did Suzani's come from anyway? Out of nowhere they're everywhere--I can't open a magazine or current decorating book without seeing them and six months ago I had never heard of the damned things. Yuck, enough already!

I vote that "FUG" is not adopted as acceptable terminology.

I soooo hate that term.

But I am pretty sure that "Suzani Bergere" is going to be my new drag name.

I can't believe, with all the AT r's around here whose erotic fantasies revolve around Anthropologie (and I'm one of them, so no insult intended), there isn't more love for this chair. Classic shape, funky ethnic styling... would look beautiful in a room of otherwise neutral colors, or in a room whose colors were pulled from its pattern.

I love this. It's very Diana Vreeland.

One caveat, though: the embroidery on a suzani might not stand up to lots of heavy wear.

Patrick! I just made myself a mug of tea ... and at least a quarter of it is splashed on my desk now!!!

:)

Yay Patrick, I mean Miss Bergere . . .

I voted "would have to see." Philosophically speaking, isn't that always the case? I'm actually leaning towards loving it because I adore folk art. My friend SW's little house is crammed with stuff I would have turned up my nose at but, after she's placed it in her space, would turn around and buy...every piece.

You could make it work, of course, but it's such an attention grabbing piece that you'd have to design the rest of the room around it. It wouldn't work as anything but the focal point. I'm not totally in love with it enough to do that, but maybe enough people are.

I'm kind of loving it - it is very Diana Vreeland. But then again, I tend to love over-the-top pieces and ethnic textiles in general.

I don't mind it, but I would rather have a kilim chair for the sheer sturdiness of it. I'm thinking of getting a kilim bench since I really don't need any chairs.

Ugly. And poorly executed.

I have a home filled with tribal textiles and this doesn't work on a number of levels.

I'd much prefer a "perfectly designed background" chair adorned with a great textile as a throw or as a pillow.

What you're seeing is an endless supply of soul-less commercial - the real ones are much more interesting - and expensive. Not to mention all the other types of wonderful textiles available.

"The real ones are much more interesting - and expensive."
Exactly.