Monday 11 April 2011

Featherston chair

Sit down in the lotus position and use your best meditation voice as you read.

Omm. The Featherston chair that I plan to buy is equivalent to Jason buying a swish suit.
Omm. The Featherston chair that I plan to buy is equivalent to Jason buying a swish suit.
Omm. The Featherston chair that I plan to buy is equivalent to Jason buying a swish suit.

That's the mantra I am practising to help alleviate the guilt when my Featherston chair arrives in the not too distant future.

A310 H chairs
The armless chair is ours
Yes, that's right. There's an A310 H Grant Featherston occasional chair  earmarked for our bedroom, waiting to be reupholstered by Colin the Upholsterer. It is very exciting.

We chose a dark green fabric in a wool tweed which will work well in our bedroom.


I am buying the chair off my friend Chris, who collects Featherstons. The chair, which is a Space dining chair designed in 1953, is surplus to his needs, as he's branching out into Robin Day designed furniture from the UK. Wouldn't you love to have that predicament?

It's a nice little chair to add to our collection of Australian made furniture and look, Jason would just splurge on another swish suit if I don't get in before him.

The chair will be a very late birthday gift from Jason and it will give me an inordinate amount of pleasure.

Jason's mantra:
Omm. Buy the f*cking chair and stop whingeing about my suits.
Omm. Buy the f*cking chair and stop whingeing about my suits.
Omm. Buy the f*cking chair and stop whingeing about my suits.


22 comments:

  1. Yay, you deserve a little treat too! Well done, can't wait to see it in situ. ;-)

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  2. Yay, buy the chair, let Jason put the suit on it. Occasionally!

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  3. that is hilarious, and i love the colour you chose darl. nice shade.jxx

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  4. I can't wait to see the chair in that colour...should be spectacular!

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  5. I think you deserve that chair.....suits for him, chairs for you.

    Unfortunately my husband seldom buys himself anything so when he grumps at me I just look indignant and say "honey, I move chairs for a living, it's what I do".

    Can't wait to see that upholstered.

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  6. Nothing like a good mantra to get over a case of buyers guilt! I'm digging the fabric you chose xx

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  7. Least you can sit in it well I suppose he can sit in his suits tooo but the chair is way more fun for you cant wait to see it done and as a lover of green big time I approve your choice of colour

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  8. Yay! Good for you. It will last much longer than a swish suit and you both can sit on it. I can't wait to see it.

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  9. I can see mantras are WAAAY more flexible than I had thought - thank you for expanding my horizons.

    Great chair, great fabric.

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  10. Chairs give more lasting pleasure than suits do, in my opinion (ooh err and all that.) Great fabric choice!

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  11. Such a funny post! Love the mantra. Hahaha. Love the green you chose - so rich. Excited to see.

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  12. I always see my Featherston chairs as part of my superannuation :) They are the best investments I have ever made. Jesus the retail prices are obscene and there aren't going to be any more originals :) I saw an R160 in Sydney that needed reupholstering and it was $6500. Jason's suits depreciate rapidly the moment he wears them.So happy for you (add squeal here)!!!

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  13. So beautifully named as well, as though it had a valet. It'll be lovely in that green. Better than a green suit.

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  14. Fantastic! I am so jealous.

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  15. Ooh I have to say I've never seen a naked Featherston, quite exciting! Who needs suits when you can have Featherstons. Lucky ducky.

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  16. That chair is a spectacular investment and one of your boys will have it when they're older and everytime they look at it, they'll remember their lovely parents.

    They'll be wearing Jason's suits to boozy University functions where everyone laughs at the style of suits lawyers used to wear 20 years ago!

    Love your choice of fabric too. Can't wait to see it finished! I think they have a Grant Featherston chair on Playschool. Is that right?

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  17. ooh ooh I love it, naked and all. Can't wait to see the finished product.

    xxMB

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  18. I AM SO JEALOUS!!!! I looooooove featherstone chairs. In green especially. Looking forward to seeing it!! Ommmmmmmmm...

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  19. Oh, lucky you! Love the fabric choice, it looks like Bute - is it? Their fabrics always look fantastic in the sample folders and even better (if that's possible) on a finished chair. Hope you'll post some pics of your birthday pressie when Colin's worked his magic!

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  20. Chairsmith, it is Bute. I am very impressed that you picked that up. Will definitely post pics when it is finished. Colin, sadly, is not a fast worker...

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