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I am still and again stoked that I found this. I've been wanting a new office/sewing chair for simply ages. The problem is that it lives in my lounge* room and I want it to be appealing to look at AND ergonomic. Seat tilt function a must and at a minimum, must have a minimum of black plastic. No arms, small scale. Basically a little task chair. But they only come in cheap looking styles and mostly made of black plastic. One can get higher quality, more attractive chairs but they are always larger, deeper seats, with arms and little or no ergonomic function- "executive" chairs. Apparently no one wants a high class "typist" chair, sigh.
I thought if I can't get wood and leather, I at least want metal and leather. This one is pretty pleasing. It's an old chair, but freshly reapholstered. The nice chaps from the shop said it was from the first gen of ergonomic chairs, so was probably pretty spiffy in it's day**. It wasn't as shiny when I bought it, heavily dusty and the metal parts were dull and a bit rusty. A quick vacuum, application of the magic German metal polish and a bit of Mr Sheen has worked wonders though. Now imagine it with the apholstery redone in leather? It is a bit heavy. All that metal is steel rather than the aluminium it would be if made now.
Oh and it was priced as a simple second hand rather than reconditioned like it should have been so I paid $80 instead of $130 like I should have, and where a modern ugly one costs ~$250
* I'm still trying for a better word than "lounge". I do a lot more in here than just lounge. "Living" room is too neutral. I live everywhere. "Parlour" is too still and formal. It needs to be something like "the doing pleasant things" room
**wish I'd thought to ask when that might have been
I thought if I can't get wood and leather, I at least want metal and leather. This one is pretty pleasing. It's an old chair, but freshly reapholstered. The nice chaps from the shop said it was from the first gen of ergonomic chairs, so was probably pretty spiffy in it's day**. It wasn't as shiny when I bought it, heavily dusty and the metal parts were dull and a bit rusty. A quick vacuum, application of the magic German metal polish and a bit of Mr Sheen has worked wonders though. Now imagine it with the apholstery redone in leather? It is a bit heavy. All that metal is steel rather than the aluminium it would be if made now.
Oh and it was priced as a simple second hand rather than reconditioned like it should have been so I paid $80 instead of $130 like I should have, and where a modern ugly one costs ~$250
* I'm still trying for a better word than "lounge". I do a lot more in here than just lounge. "Living" room is too neutral. I live everywhere. "Parlour" is too still and formal. It needs to be something like "the doing pleasant things" room
**wish I'd thought to ask when that might have been
