If you’ve been around for awhile (an embarrassingly long while), then you read about my excitement when we stumbled across our Z chairs. Like so many things in life, this little project took 200 times longer than it should have. But now we’re rolling.
Kiss the pink goodbye.
We’ve ordered the fabric and selected an upholster. So now we just wait for others to do their job. I’m oddly impatient, a feeling that is quite misplaced in this scenario.
We really thought we’d go with a fabric that was generally solid with a nice mid century texture to it.
We had it narrowed down to five, and then to three…
The one on the far left was my favorite in person, but it’s wool and feels a little scratchy, like a sweater, and I didn’t think I wanted to sit on a sweater all year. So we were down to the two on the right – both are identical in texture and materials, but the one in the middle has more colors threading through it. We really thought we wanted to stay more solid, but there was just something about the way the various colors tied into things around the room that finally sold us on the busier one. I think it’s going to look swell.
if not pink, then definitely the middle swatch.
Oh, I like the pink 🙂 who are you using for upholstery? I have a chair that I’m contemplating recovering.
We’re using Tinkers. They were recommended by our friends at Centro, and also by the Knoll rep we worked with. I thought their upholstery price was very reasonable.
Um, the pink is not my favorite! Not so much the color, but the fabric is stiff and pretty ugly in person, with all those scallop-y looking shapes. Plus, if you look at the second photo from the bottom you can see a hint at just how trashed the fabric is – it’s in shreds along the bottom cushions.