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me no likey

It reminds me of one of those jackets that has different colored fabric at the elbows. Not my taste.

ugly

I love Jonathan Adler and Mad Men, but I don't like this chair. It looks like a drab little penguin to me.

Not his most successful effort...

love don draper, but i dont think this would work for him. maybe if it was all fabric or all leather instead of half and half?

Glad I am not alone in my sentiments on this one. I love Jonathan Adler, but this chair seems very drab and against his aesthetics.

Shesus, you people don't like anything.

I rather like the lines and proportions- very elegant yet still masculine.

it's like three chairs in one!

I agree with kellylc --

Jonathan Adler posited this chair in opposition to the hugeness of recent furniture, and it looks like it's got good lines and more of a mid-century scale, i.e., it's perfect for apartments or older homes with smaller living spaces.

There are sure to be more color combos and fabrics. But this one is growing on me.

this is an ugly chair- and I love chairs.

I'm glad to see the majority doesn't like this chair either, I was thinking to myself, I don't like it, I don't get it, is there something wrong with me? am I missing the edge of it? it looks cheap and ugly - glad I'm not alone....but I do like JA except for this piece

itsthehouseshow...perfectly phrased!

"Shesus, you people don't like anything."

Perhaps if it were shown in a single fabric - such as a tweedy orange wool - I'd like it alot more...
...after I looked at the different perspectives on his site, the shape kinda reminds me of chairs you'd have seen in lounges aboard the old France or Leonardo daVinci

Take off the arms and it would be a nice looking chair.

the arms look like they were glued on as an afterthought and might drop to the floor with a heavy thud at any moment.

Awkward and ugly.

yes -- very awkward looking......

Frankenchair

Yeah, the arms look like they were sort of tacked on. They don't bear any relationship to the rest of the chair. The blocky leather arms just don't work with the relatively delicate-looking, angled legs.

I blogged about this today too. Something is off, and I decided for me the problem is that it looks like there should be an airplane tray table and ashtray built into those awkward arms. At that price, I'd way rather have a real mid-c modern chair, or four. I do appreciate the two-tone/two-texture and the lines of everything besides the arms. I esp. like the legs, and of course, Jonathan's hilarious way of describing it in the email he sent out today. The man has got a way with witty words!

How would I describe this chair? In one word: awful.

All it needs is a folding tray table in one arm and an ashtray in the other... and a call button for the flight attendant.

ugly. mad men it ain't.

99% copied from inexpensive vinyl French armchairs from the 60s that you can find hundreds of in any flea market or charity sale here, most people are likely to give them away for free...

I reminds me of a chair in a hospital or retirement home it is horrible.

I really dislike that Adler described the chair as "draper-ish". Partly because associating a piece of furniture with a hot man is a sad way to gain attention, but mostly because it is distinctly not. Unless this chair stole the seat from his lobby, the arms from his couch, and the legs from his table.

frumpy

nifty

JamesinSF, JINX!

I'm glad people are glad about the things they make, but this is stink-o. Maybe I'm just not educated in the "modern" or I just don't get what's oh-so great about Jonathan Adler. He's pushing a chair, I get kind of a vibe that "they'll eat this up." Yeah, this is a chump chair. I tried to look at it with a positive value but between the "frankenchair" comment and the one where it looks like a seat on an airplane, I can't say this is brilliant design. It's maybe crisp, but neither clubby nor confident. It's a boring chair. If you're looking at a room with this chair in it, you're not going to be pining ("Good Question!") to know where you can get this chair; it's not the chair you've been holding a space for, waiting for its arrival. Whatever you think your style is, this is not a miraculous hybrid or a style beyond compare. You will keep looking, right past this, for the right chair. Unless someone gives you this chair, or it's cheap on clearance, or discarded on the street will you give this chair a chance, and only then, because you had been sitting on the floor. It's not the world's ugliest chair by any means, but this is not the spectacle of comfort and design you strive to provide in your home to yourself and guests.

I saw this chair in Adler's Soho store a few weeks ago, and I really love it -- I thought it was stunning. Maybe it's the angle this photo was taken from that's throwing some people off. In person it's very cool -- minimal but stylish and extremely comfortable and well-constructed. It's so much nicer than the enormously oversized things I see almost everywhere these days (recession? what recession? must have more massive furniture to fill our McMansions that bankrupted our country!)
I would love to have two of these chairs in my living room.

I like it. Definitely isn't anything new in regards to design but being that I love mid century modern it's right up my alley.