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Number Chairs! by Luigi Billiani
Metropolitan Home, April 2009

Flipping through the newest issue of Metropolitan Home (April 2009), we fell instantly in love with the Number Chairs — a series of solid beech chairs with the numerals 0-9 on the chair backs. Not only does our love of typography and large-scale graphics come in to play, but the chairs are available in 180 colors!

 
 

Manufactured by Italian company Billiani, the beech wood chairs are available in three wood stains (Natural, Cherry or Wenge) or the choice of 180 lacquer varnishes!

Available from EuroTrendUSA for $585, each. How would you use Number Chairs?

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Absolutely not for that price. If I had $600 laying about to spend on a chair, I would most absolutely buy an american icon, such as Eames - which is a supercomfortable chair. Not spend it on a chair that looks like fun, and should cost $200

posted by Anusha73 on March 2nd 2009 at 3:17pm
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It's a shame they're so expensive as these chairs look like so much fun --- the color selection is impressive!

posted by Centelleo on March 2nd 2009 at 3:31pm
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love the look but not the price. Can i get one of these on wheels (and cheaper) for an office chair...

posted by jmorey on March 2nd 2009 at 4:26pm
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i love them. but that price is insane. ikea should do them for $50 a pop.

posted by cootiefree on March 2nd 2009 at 5:13pm
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Nice selection, but $600 for a chair? My goodness...

posted by simplehearted on March 2nd 2009 at 10:21pm
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The color range is one of the reasons WHY this chair is this price, people...

And if Ikea did this for $50 a pop, someone would then say, "Can I trust a $50 chair from Ikea?"

posted by patrick (the other one) on March 2nd 2009 at 11:19pm
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LOVE these chairs, btw.

posted by patrick (the other one) on March 2nd 2009 at 11:19pm
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They remind me a lot of Ivan Chermayeff's red number 9 on 57th Street.

If I had a porch, I'd put them outside to show the house number.

posted by Lisa (Montreal) on March 3rd 2009 at 3:25pm
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While I respect your opinion, patrick (the other one), and think that you are correct in correlating the price with the astounding color selection, I think you're wrong about Ikea. If they were 50 or 100 bucks a pop you'd have folks doing Jumpstart redos on them. Or they'd become the next "Keep Calm and Carry On" and we'd get tired of them.

posted by kushkush on March 3rd 2009 at 4:03pm
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well... how about a diy inspiration- so many positively hideous chairs could be improved by removing the center part and putting a letter or your initial etc there. Some would be cheap to have cut too. Probably could make it for about 25 dollars

posted by profumodibergamo on March 3rd 2009 at 4:11pm
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patrick (the other one), when you go out to a restaurant do you ask them how much they paid for their chairs before sitting down?
and kuskkush, people buy items they like... because THEY like them. it doesn't matter if people on a blog are tired of seeing them.

posted by cootiefree on March 4th 2009 at 2:32am
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