House Industries chair

With the release of its Neutraface Slab family of fonts, House Industries is selling a number of products, including a set of alphabet blocks, totes, T-shirts, mousepads, posters, and this handsome boomerang chair.

[#1 posted by Anonymous, May 19, 2009 1:55 PM]

don't actually see where you can buy the chair - just download the picture of it!

[#2 posted by Anonymous, May 19, 2009 2:12 PM]

That was SO CLOSE to being a really cool chair, and then they screwed a couple of flimsy broomhandles into the sides instead of continuing with the craftsman aesthetic implied by the exposed-thru-tenon bits.

If you placed the holes just right you could put the dowels through the boomerangs at an angle. You'd need to put a little bit of pipe sleeving in there to prevent them snapping off at the inflection points, then it would be sturdier than this screwed-on legs version.

[#3 posted by Brainspore, May 19, 2009 2:48 PM]

I'm not sure I'm sold on the feet. Do they make a sans serif version?

[#4 posted by arkizzle / Moderator, May 19, 2009 3:00 PM]

Brainspore +1

[#5 posted by luketheobscure, May 19, 2009 4:14 PM]

I think they actually made this chair some time ago- when they came out with their first round of Neutra products. It was listed as out of stock for a while, but now I don't see it listed at all on the store.

In regards to the comments about the legs, if memory serves correctly this chair was designed by Richard Neutra himself, therefore it would be somewhat inappropriate for House to redesign the legs...

...unless they changed the legs to giant bronze ampersands or something.

[#6 posted by Rummager, May 19, 2009 4:34 PM]

Looks like a handsome falling-over-backwards chair to me.