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Musical Chairs

Sunday, July 11, 2010

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Did you ever imagine that my $20 mid-century side chairs could end up looking like this? Neither did I, which is why I sold a pair of them last week for $100, which represented an excellent return on my investment but a supremely stupid move in retrospect now that I've seen the pictures of these James Mont chairs, kindly provided by Troy Seidman of Caviar 20.

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Dear styleNorth . . .

Saturday, July 3, 2010

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I got an email today from styleNorth reader Elizabeth who wrote to say that "the beautiful Milo Baughman chairs on Craigslist that you wrote about last year . . . well, I lucked out and got them! The evolving nature of our decroating is leaning much more heavily to the Arts and Crafts side and we are re-selling our Baughman chairs on Craigslist. My original prediction that the chairs would probably wind up "in a Leslieville shop window next week for two or three times the price" still holds.

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Not Quite Wormely

Sunday, June 20, 2010

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Ed Wormley is one of my favorite mid-century furniture designers and when I saw the Craigslist ad above, I was struck by how similar the chairs are to Wormley's famous Captain Chair (below left) and also to his Petite Armchair (below centre), albeit with a soupçon of Scandinavian flair. I immediately emailed the seller who informed me that she actually had three of the chairs, although the third had a different fabric. I arranged to go see them.

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Smells Like a Makeover

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

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StyleNorth reader Debbie wrote to me with her latest project, the dining chair makeover above. "I found the chairs on Craigslist for $15 (for all 4!!)," writes Debbie. "The beige fabric seat cover was grungy and stinky, so I got rid of it right away. A little bit of steel wool and elbow grease revived the chrome, a few coats of white paint on the cane backs and new Ikea fabric for the seats, and they look pretty good to me."

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Decor Dilemma: IKEA Snobbery

Saturday, December 5, 2009

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My IKEA snobbery knows no bounds. The prejudice was brought home to me this morning while surfing Craigslist and clicking through on an ad for the potentially cool lounge chair above ($150); the second I saw it was from IKEA I said, "pass". Nevermind that I'm in the market for a decent lounge chair or that this one happens to reference one of my all-time-favorite designs, the Zurich Leisure chair. My kneejerk reaction is if it's from IKEA, pass.

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