This months edition of Australian Home Beautiful showcases the magazines favourite products from the past year. The major prize, The Product of the Year, was awarded to Ikea’s Ange Chair. But we have a confession to make- until reading this we had never heard of or even noticed the Ange Chair in the Ikea catalogue or anywhere else. Are you familiar with the Ange Chair? Would you award it your product of the year?
Australian Home Beautiful - Product of the Year
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The Home Beautiful panel said the Ange Chair was "very suited to the Australian market, it's a bit like your cane verandah chair. It was good design with a great price tag". Priced at AU$179 the Ange Chair is comprise of a steel frame and hand-woven paper, finished in an acrylic lacquer for the seat and back. While we can see where the panel are coming from as far as it being an updated version you might have seen on a verandah in a country town, we can’t help but wonder if this is really the best product that the panel could have come up with. As we mentioned earlier, we’re unfamiliar with the chair but what are your thoughts?
To view the other products in the showcase, visit the Home Beautiful website here.
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Personally I am not familiar with it but it really depends on the criteria. The design is versitile, the price is good and if it's comfortable, perhaps that is what they were after. It is a bit boring but whenever something is the best "whatever" of the year, I tend to think that is more media hype and PR maniupulation than anything else.
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Having worked at the big blue box that is IKEA, I'm familiar with Ange. I like the product, it's cute, a good design, and well priced. But: few stores seem to carry it, at least in Canada and the United States. So, really shouldn't a 'best product of the year' also be accessible?
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i'd like to know the purpose of the hole in the seat. couldn't that be a bit uncomfortable to try and get out of should you happen to get stuck?
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I've looked at this chair in the showroom-- and though it is really attractive, like much of Ikea's seating to be too small and low to be a functional chair.
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Wow this really save a nurse's back. No more getting the patient from the chair to the toilet. Just add some wheels and push it over the pot.
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I saw it at IKEA, and it's more comfortable than it looks.
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that chair is "no go" because it looks like it IS for going.
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