Swedish Midcentury Rocking Chair - score of the month

 

This chair warrants a new category - score of the month! The chair is June's score of the month. Sonya scooped this for $20 (negotiated down from the sales tag price of $50) at 2:00 in the afternoon on her 2nd round of garage sales on June 6th (the car was full and the wallet was empty so she had to re-up). The German lady who was selling it said she had bought it while she a student in the early 60s and had carted it around with her for 40 years, and now she decided it was too big for her house (thanks lady!). She said it came from Sweden. I can't get over how awesome this chair is. It's the most comfortable thing I've ever sat in. The proportions are superb, it just feels great. Ka-ching! Score of the month.

Pair of Thonet No.14 Bentwood cafe Chairs

It was 1/2 price Wednesday at the Ottawa Goodwill. I can't believe this set was still there at 2:30, and it was $9.99 for both. I believe they're Thonet No.14 cafe chairs, they have a very light stencil mark on their underside. Yay Thonet!

Canadian Bent Wood Chair

 

 

 

Sonya scored this little bent wood chair while we still lived out in Vancouver, from the awesome Cloverdale Sunday flea market.  We scored many, many awesome things from that crappy little flea (I'll post up a couple of examples later) like this chair. I haven't been able to ID a maker yet, but this is midcentury Canadian bent wood at its best. I love the curve of the back legs, the little handhold cutout, but most of all the underside of the seat! Sadly the dark staining isn't really matching up with the other stuff we have going on at the moment so this chair is unloved down in the basement graveyard.  

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.