I'm Very Sorry But I Can't Help Myself

The Ernest Race Antelope chair designed for the Festival of Britain in 1951 is one of my top, top favourites. 

Is it not a beauty?

Images from here and here.

I Like These A Lot

'Retrouve' chairs by Patricia Urquiola. Image from here.

You, I Like

Coming across these chairs pleased me no end.

The 'Tio' collection is designed by Swedish company Mass Productions. Read more about them here and take a look at the rest of this elegant collection.

These chairs seem to me as if they could be distantly related to the Bertoia side chair.

Photo from twentytwentyone

Garden Partners

"If you look at these chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculpture. Space passes right through them."

Harry Bertoia

These Bertoia Side Chairs - lots of them by the way - 

now inhabit the garden at the V&A. 

They've been paired up with these 

equally lovely Eero Saarinen Tulip 

dining and side tables. 

Grand they look.

Three Chairs

I like chairs. I have alot* of them. I will probably have more.

Here's one of my favourites - upright, simple, sturdy and very useful for hanging a jacket on. This chair is typical of a kind of country chair made in Wales in the early to mid 19th Century.

Now the next one is fairly utilitarian looking and typically 1930's in style. Although not conventionally pretty, it's probably the most comfortable dining chair in the world - in my view. Once you're in - you're in - there's no squirming about here and it doesn't dig into your spine at just the wrong place. And the seat can accommodate the more generously proportioned without fear of any uncomfy thigh overflow.

My garden chair of choice would be the Luxembourg chair - the Low Stackable I like alot. It was originally produced in 1923 for Les Jardins du Luxembourg in Paris. This distinctive chair was redesigned in 2004 by Frederic Sofia and is now made from aluminium instead of steel. It comes in lots of nice colours and probably ages well too.

Luxembourg Chairs via here

* Most are hand-me-downs.