Our Grandparent's generation can't go on holidays within Australia without coming home with a tourist tea towel from their destination. We’ve already confessed to loving Australian made tea towels, but Australiana tea towel upholstered arm chairs– Lord help us!
Suzie Stanford's Tea Towel Upholstery
Melbourne
Melbourne based Suzie Stanford uses vintage linen Australiana themed tea towels to upholster arm chairs, twin lounges and ottomans. All of her work is created from second-hand pieces and this year she showed the below chairs at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan Furniture Fair in April. Check out more of Suzie’s work, including jewellery and lighting at her website here.
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I like em.
view teeze's profile
Hate em.
view SherryBinNH's profile
Perfect for a 1940's style resort or beach house...
...but anywhere else - hopelessly tacky.
(And Mop-Taupe Bullion Fringe is never a good thing)
view bepsf's profile
I've seen nice pillows made out of tea towels, and my sister once made a miniskirt out of two of them, but these ....?? [[shudder]]
view Jane's profile
As much as I love Australia, there's a limit.
view littleinkpot's profile
LOVE LOVE LOVE
view 50s Pam's profile
I love these and would especially love them if I had a beach house.
view Kate (NC)'s profile
LOVE! They are kitschy and campy and nostalgic. They would be perfect in a beach house or prairie yurt or lake cabin. I applaud her creativity. The bullion fringe is part of the camp. It harkens back to cross country family vacations in big station wagons with all the windows rolled down for lack of AC, no seat belts, AM radio and the first taste of experiencing a larger expanse of one's world outside of home. All of that immediately comes to mind when I look at these chairs. They emanate a deep emotional response and that's why I say, LOVE!
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Maybe it's my personal dislike for anything patchwork, but dear me, those poor chairs.
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They do have the kitsch factor going for them, but I'm not super crazy about these chairs.
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