Re: UKNM: Off-topic: Good chairs

[Tim.Hayward]

I love this whole Herman Miller thing.


For years Charles and Ray Eames' little aluminium number (distributed by

Herman

Miller) has supported the slack and pampered arses of 95 percent of the ad

industry. You know the ones. Low back in a sort of knobbly black wool.

Aluminium

frame inc. arms. 5 legged, star shaped base.


I'm looking at four right now.


For as long as I can remember these were amongst the splendid artifacts that

made agencies the hideously unimaginative spaces they traditionally are.

Along

with Artemide desk lamps, farting leather sofas, those bloody uncomfortable

'leather cube in a chrome frame' foyer armchairs and fucking awful corporate

art.


Suddenly, in some ghastly aberration of Wallpaper* induced irony,  these

dreary

little yuppie-perches are fashionable. More to the point, there's one in the

window of the Conran Collection for �1750.


Suddenly they're disappearing from the office.   In herds.


What's going on?


Are the creatives nicking them to stick around the Iroko and Yarrah wood,

spindly legged dining tables in their Clerkenwell lofts?


Or have they just grown tired? Having absorbed three decades of cokey arse

sweat

from hassled Account directors, they've evolved a kind of rudimentary

intelligence. Every night they come to life, form little escape cadres and

clip-clop quietly on tiny, pointy feet through the suburbs of North London,

via

untravelled backtracks parallel to the A1 to release themselves in the

Highlands

among the gamboling herds of liberated Vitras, Aerons, Eames recliners,

SWCs,

Jacobsen eggs and Majestic, overstuffed Connolly hide wing-backed,

swivelling

power brokers thrones.


Christ, I should get out more.....


T



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