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Here you see Yours Truly in an Outdoor Stingray Rocking Chair by Thomas Pederson at a recent exhibition in Munich.
Its price tag.
The Stingray was featured in a Blog with an amusing name More Ways To Waste Time in a post House Voyeur Simple and Serene
If I had to point to the single most expensive piece of furniture in our home, that was bought entirely because we were giving ourselves a present, it would have to be our Stingray rocking chair. It was designed by Thomas Pedersen and produced by Fredericia Furniture in Denmark. In fact, the chair was Pedersen’s final project in design school and because the school had no facilities for fiberglass molding, he made the prototype in the school’s parking lot.
Verdict
The chair doesn’t sit as easy as it looks!
Made by Fredericia
This Youtube Slideshow was posted by The Post Materialist and labeled as being form their Berlin correspondent.
The Post Materialist gave it as link baiting title “5000 Years of Chairs in 5 minutes”, which, according to some comments to which I agree, is a bit far fetched.
The nicest comment is from a certain Aaron:
I’m not sure the presentation needs within itself a point  as long as it can provoke a point in the viewer. For me, the variety of attitudes towards the way it is possible to sit, the variety of forms people have created for sitting, and the variety of situations in which people sit is provocative enough. From status markers to signs of bodily comfort to airport seating that indicates momentary rest within movement, chairs are fascinating forms that say something about the human culture that they are created in  and this presentation succeeds I think in presenting a cultural variety most design-oriented pieces do not in their rush to establish taste.
In any case, as long as there is no grade on the line, I think the responsibility here lies with the viewer. Thanks to the post-materialist for sharing his photos.
His words explain a bit of my own fascination with everything you can seat yourself on.
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR LATE 18TH CENTURY With a padded drop-in seat Together with another of a later date, in the Sheraton style (2)
A PAIR OF PHILIPPE STARCK J.(SERIE LANG) LOUNGE CHAIRS DESIGNED 1986 FOR DRIADE aluminium, leather upholstery 33¼in. (84.5cm.) high
Price Realized £875
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