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I'd have to say I disagree. I find this chair's shape and proportions jarring. It looks as if the base, chair frame, and cushions were all taken from different models and slapped together -- awkwardly so.

I love the upholstered top (minus the nailhead trim), and like the flare to the legs, but the wood enclosure around the bottom is just too discordant to me.

I disagree also; it looks really unattractive and I can just imagine it covered in vinyl in a British hospital wing.

Kaare Klint chairs on the other hand are a thing of beauty.

I also have to say it looks awkward and uncomfortable - nothing cradle-y about it.

While I was going to bite down my "fuuuugggggly!" response... those arms look too low and skinny to lean an elbow on comfortably, and that's an important function issue in a chair with arms.

Wasn't modernism about the beauty that is possible when form follows function?

I encourage everyone to look at page 80 of the April issue of Metropolitan Home. (it's not online or I would have posted it) You will see this chair in a new light and appreciate the power of creative fabrication and upholstery!

This page has a picture of the chair in the multi-stripes:

http://www.shelterrific.com/2007/04/19/isnt-it-amazing-what-you-can-do-with-upholstery/

Same chair at a real home:

http://www.shelterrific.com/2007/04/23/methome-dream-chair-gets-a-real-life-home/

It reminds me of and ill-proportioned woman. I have seen the other version, which looks awful to me in an even more complex way.

Maybe it would be nicer if they cut the top third off?

Thanks Anne!

Wow, surprised to see no love here for this chair (which I really, really like).

I think the base gives it a vague Deco-oriental/Hollywood Regency thing. Would love to see the base in a lacquered finish.

But I *totally* passed this chair by in the train-wreck of stripes it was shown in in Met Home. Yeee-ikes.

This chair is surely the three dimensional personification of bad posture. Coupled with the upholstery color the overall effect is one of less than rosy health.

I love this chair - though not that color it's pictured in above. It's traditional (which I like) but still has a bit of spunk (double likey!).

Very nice chair, truly. The stripe version looks different proportionately, somehow. Not crazy about it in that version and the color of the solid is kinda yukky, but the lines are wonderful. Especially love the restrained nailhead trim detail. So it's not Eames. It still has much more style and grace than a lot of stuff out today.

It has potential but at 4 grand, it's just a ripoff. You can get much nicer for the money. Personally I like some of the new Thomasville chairs at a more affordable 1 grand.

Does anyone know where I can the bookshelf in the picture or an affordable version of one?

This chair looks like something that might have been posted on April Fools Day to trip us up.

Next please!

I really like it in the plain fabric. HATE it in the stripes.

I agree that the proportions of this chair look very odd - I believe it is the back cushion that is the problem - at less than half the height of the back it just looks wrong

Also the tall slender back jarrs horribly with the short squat wide wooden base

Not good

I agree with Violet. I think it looks terribly bottom-heavy.