I ♥ Danish Modern

Made it through the first week of school alive!!! To celebrate I went to lunch with Lynne (and celebrated her birthday at the same time) and then went shopping with Mom. I let her choose the destination, and we ended up at Thrift Town, which I hate because they don't have a very large selection of furniture.

Right inside the door, though, I found a cool piece of red-and-green pottery in a nice amorphous shape. It's from LA Pottery, which I've never heard of but intend to research later. Anyway, the piece had chips along the edges but it was only $1.99 so I bought it. Then I picked up a package of wrapping paper, like I need more of it! I saw some very Partridge-Family's-kitchen-ish chairs across the store, the kind that belonged in a Harvest Gold kitchen, so I wandered over to check them out.

I browsed through lamps along the way and talked myself out of a lime green glass beauty, then then went by their miscellaneous area and talked myself out of a magazine rack (the most useless piece of furniture ever invented), and finally walked past two beautiful aquariums and then ___SCRRRRREEEEEECCCCHHHHHEEEEDDDD____ to a halt.

My eyes were so shocked that it took them a few seconds to communicate to the brain without stuttering. There, in front of me, was a WAS IT SOLD? Please, no, no, it should be mine, not sold not sold THANK GOODNESS and only 49.95.

There, in the best tradition of Juhl, Wagner and Risom, was a lounge chair. With the matching ottoman. Wow. I love this style!!! I was freaking so hard I had trouble even looking at it objectively and had to call Mom over to evaluate it.

It's an unusual chair -- the back reclines, and the back ends of the arms had small circles cut into the wood. Behind the chair back a piece of wood spans arm to arm. This piece has pegs on the end, which fit into the holes. By moving the piece of wood from one set of holes to another you can control (to a very limited degree) the angle of the chair's back.

The original cushions were in place (at least we're pretty sure they're original -- white with orange flowers) but nothing was labeled.

Of course I bought it as quickly as I could. Thank goodness Mom drove the truck. I think we've learned our lesson on that one the time I tried to place an office chair in the back of the Toyota.

Now I'm trying to figure out what to do with the piece. I don't have any responsibilities tomorrow, so I think I'll head over to Bocca Bargoons and buy fabric for new cushions. This closing sale of theirs has made everything so cheap that I'd be stupid not to. I'll just have to go with a color that will work in any of my planned color schemes, and not actually make the cushions until I know exactly where to place it.

So happy to have yet another piece of furniture. I'm acquiring kinda quickly, actually, but so far it's working. I'm just stumbling into things that are on my want list. Soon, any day now, I'll find a sofa. I have faith.