Thursday, July 23, 2009

The Savannah Chair

This sturdy chair is absolutely glowing in person, I hope the pics help it come across a little bit!

This chair began its life as a high-quality Flexsteel armchair that was being discarded because of how vile the fabric was.  

The seat is the gorgeous new upholstery that registers as a neutral but is actually an incredible texture of brown chenille interspersed with vibrant greens.

Modern chairs are actually much more difficult to take apart that vintage ones.  The backs are put on with machines using a kind of metal bracket that attaches from the inside.  Terrible stuff to deal with!

This is it after all the welting has been applied, the back closed and the tufting put in the backrest.  This tufting is super unique as it is my own design.  It actually serves to make this chair incredibly comfortable, as the tufting pulls the back in exactly where most people's scapular would hit the chair, very comfy!  This chair is now happy in California with Jana!

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