Solair Chairs...from the dump

Designed in Montreal in 1972 by Fabio Fabiano and Michelange Panzini. I just got the black one for free yesterday from the dump's 'New To You' trailer, the orange one came from an end of year garage sale for $2.00. These chairs are really comfortable and have been reissued recently by a shop out of Toronto. It seems they're easy to pick up for $150 or less from several spots. It's nice the bases fold up so they take up much less space for winter storage. These will be deployed on our yet to be built front patio that's brewing for later this summer.

The Dump - Wood school chair and metal task stool

I haven't posted in almost two months! Yikes, time to get my act together. Sonya and I both just finished a year-long college course and are now official Personal Support Workers.  Between exams, job searching and then having a big equipment failure (Xplornet you suck, thanks Rogers Hub!) 2peas has been the forgotten foster child. We have killed it so far this garage sale season and I have much to post and update. 

I love the local Dump, there's always some sort of random crap that can be rummaged through, and they have the New-To-You trailer where folks drop off stuff they no longer want. I'm off to there this morning, and will update this post later with some more pics and todays booty. 

 

Wooden school chair, the back finish is a bit worn, but otherwise in fine shape. There's something so pleasing about any school chair. 

Anything furniture made of metal always comes home, and this task stool is great. I love the beaten top, chipped white paint and splayed legs.

Dump Score - Taiwanese Mod Pods

Scored these 'objects' at the dump over the weekend along with a cool child's school chair. They look kinda cool by the turntable.

Folding Bentwood Plywood midcentury Rocking Lounge Chair - best dump score EVER!

I don't know about where you live, but because we live outside a small town, we have a local dump where we go to on the weekends to get rid of our garage & recycling. Every small town dump out here has a small shack where people leave free unwanted usable items. Our shack is a leaky trailer called 'New To You'. This place is like our local mall, it has given up many gems to me over the past 3 years. You have to sort through a lot of cheap broken china, Jackie Collins paperbacks and stained corporate coffee cups, but there's always something there I walk away with. Records, lamps, stereo equipment, silverware, and quite a bit of furniture.

This rocking chair was coated in about 40 years of thick dust stashed in a dark corner. I saw the bent plywood arms and knew it was something special. Once I got it home and was able to sit in it, it became apparent that this is something special. It is really well designed. Obviously it fold up nicely, but the bent wood work is really awesome. The seat and back have lovely cutaway slats through the plywood. The arms might look a bit short, but they're actually perfectly positioned to be of maximum comfort. There's a runner across at the front of the rockers that sits perfectly for your heels to rest on so the rocking motion is effortless. Words and pictures don't do this chair justice. It is my new favorite piece of furniture, and given that it was FREE  I would say it will be the score of the year come December (but check back then to see...).

If anyone has ANY info on this beauty, please let me know. It must have been mass produced.