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Hot or Not? The Leslie Chair


Bruce Marsh's Leslie Chair

 
 

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No sound on this computer, so I didn't hear the explanations, but looks ok and seems sturdy. I'm short, so mine would need to be custom: I hate not having my feet flat on the ground, and even this (presumably taller than 4'11") guy didn't quite touch.

posted by SherryBinNH on July 6th 2009 at 1:31pm
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Well, he's hot.

posted by theserovingeyes on July 6th 2009 at 1:32pm
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@sherrybinnh:

Had the sound, and the visuals are the focus. I'm with you on the short issue. My feet never touch the floor. This is an attractive chair, but why can't designers ever seem to take the shortsters into account?

posted by becster on July 6th 2009 at 2:06pm
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Well it is clever, but looks like a park bench, not something I would put in my home, nor would it be a chair I'd spend a lot of time seated in

posted by Newburgh Restoration on July 6th 2009 at 2:37pm
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OMG, he has just the same hotness as my ex; same body type, same height, same coloring. And he sold me on the chair, too. Think I need to make a trip up to Mass to see Mr. B.

posted by kushkush on July 6th 2009 at 3:08pm
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The chair looks too hard and masculine for me to want it in my home. While the creator is handsome I sometimes think he and other jock types should leave designs for the interior to the ladies and the gays. Only a straight guy guy would want such a heavy chair and would be so into showing off the cantilever.

posted by Haruki on July 6th 2009 at 3:08pm
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i wish the video showed us the front of the chair.

posted by s2k on July 6th 2009 at 3:09pm
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@theserovingeyes --

Yeah, he is.

@Newburgh Restoration --

How funny - I was thinking church pew!

posted by bepsf on July 6th 2009 at 3:11pm
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Where can I get him. Funny, smart and good looking and he knows furniture, perfect. The chair's pretty cool to.

posted by sea9262 on July 6th 2009 at 3:18pm
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i'm glad i clicked on the link to see pics because the video wasn't very clear for me (had the volume on low). it's beautiful, but it does not look like it will be comfortable for a long time (dinner party length).

@theserovingeyes now that i'm "taken" i've had to rein in my roving eyes a bit but goodness he is hot

posted by saya* on July 6th 2009 at 3:18pm
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I didn't get any sound too, but I was too busy looking at the eye candy to really care about the chair. The chair doesn't look like anything special, maybe with sound I would have thought differently. Mr. Man kind of looks like Denny from Grey's A.

posted by orchidday on July 6th 2009 at 3:50pm
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@Haruki: I hope you're kidding.

I think he was jumping all over the chair not to be a 'jock', but to show off how strong the design is, which makes sense given the lack of support beneath the seat. Intuitively, it seems like the chair should be unstable.

posted by slowdown on July 6th 2009 at 3:56pm
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Ok.... so you need a "demo video" to sell a chair.... I remember the good old days when you could just see a chair and knew what it was for.

Big, chunky, heavy, straight, unconfortable, hard, tall, boring.... i'm running out of adjectives here!

posted by manu_pty on July 6th 2009 at 4:48pm
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"Simply put, furniture assembled with cheap metal components (that can barely be screwed in once before the threads strip) aren't going to last long term. When you have to cut down a whole new tree and fire up the steel mill every five years to replace things that were poorly made, you're not saving yourself money and you're not saving the earth. Sorry for the rant. Buy good stuff, it lasts. "

http://www.brucemarsh.com/designs/pages.php?pageid=5

He's smart too - I think I'm in love...

posted by bepsf on July 6th 2009 at 5:10pm
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Here's a list of things I want to see a 360 view of before deciding if I like it or not:
1. This chair.
2. Everything else.

posted by Emika on July 8th 2009 at 6:28am
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whatever. that chair sucks.

posted by cmelton13 on July 8th 2009 at 2:49pm
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