Few years ago we bought at auction a jugend style armchair.  |
| The armchair |
The armchair was originally put in the studio and there, it seems, some cat thought they need to leave a mark. It was a bit too clumsy for the desk so I thought of getting a different chair there and we moved the armchair to the guestroom, as more reading chair.
I thought that it looked very nice in the room, but between the cat pee and the bleached textile, it looked a bit sad as well.
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| Detail of the armchair, the wood lacked some glue here and there are visible stains |
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| More of the stains |
I decided it was time to fix it up, after so many years, and I tried to find someone that would not rob us for changing at least the textile. I probably ended up being robbed anyway, but I at least went to a real professional, whose basement was just full of textile bits.
After showing me, I have no idea how many samples, we limited the search on three.
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| Fruity and flowery |
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| A real William Morris |
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| A bit more "woods" and animals |
The original idea I had was to try to get the same kind of wool blue textile, but after talking to the upholsterer and after viewing all she had, I realized that I was limiting myself and probably choosing the wrong direction.
I went home with the pictures for discussing with Mattias, but I ended up discussing with AI.
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| How can the chair look with the different textile? |
This was a very good way to make the thoughts concrete. I also thought that how the room looks would matter, so I gave a picture of the bedroom and I got some idea of how it would look with the yellow of the walls and the dark furniture.
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| Option #1 |
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| Option #2 |
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| Option #3 |
This made things definitely easier and more concrete. So, it was not much doubt that option #2 would be the best one, even though we evaluated them all. It was quite clear to us that the first one, the more yellow textile, felt more like "too much kitchen", while the Willam Morris felt a bit too crowded.
We are very happy of the end result!
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| A detail of the armchair after the "treatment" |
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| We lack just some curtains |
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| Yes, something is missing still |
Ok, now we have a curtains project to put in action.
