From time to time my poor Chairblog doesn’t get any attention from me. I leave it floating on its own. Poor blog. And then a new Januari is on the horizon and again I think: “Shall I (re)start with daily posts as I did in 2023 and 2024?”
Then I find the following message from September 6, 2012 in a newly discovered pile of messages:
Hello Guido J. van den Elshout !
I am a furniture maker from Copenhagen. I love chairs !. Thank you for your fantastic Chair Blog (and archives !).
Henrik Ingemann Nielsen, architect
It’s a bit stoopid. Only this month I discovered a whole archive of forms that people dutifully submitted and which I have never seen or looked at before.
Among it a message from Henrik Ingemann Nielsen, an architect from Copenhagen that today I see for the first time. The website he mentions (modelhotel.dk) doesn’t operate anymore, but in Googling his name I found a link to Bukowski which features this chair that he apparently designed together with Alexander H Damsbo.
He has a presence on linked in, but never posted there.
There are more compliments in those posts. There are more than 500. There is a pile of new inspiration for posts in the near future.
I feature Henrik’s message here because I like a pat on my back from time to time. I have some followers who get an e-mail when I post here and I have some followers on my weekly newsletter that is automatically sent weekly when I post here. A goal I didn’t reach in al those years of blogging is people who react here in the blog to posts. Only an occasional reaction.
An interesting feature of the H C Andersen Wingchair is it can fold into a sort of side table:
Yes lovely blog Guido, but,
black nightmare of a chair, hope it does not visit me tonight!
Sorry to be the only one to react…