Everyone who loves mid-century design has seen the 1961 photo below that ran with a
Playboy magazine article featuring the major designers of the day.
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| l to r: George Nelson, Edward Wormley, Eero Saarinen, Harry Bertoia, Charles Eames and Jens Risom |
What you may not have seen is a real, live C140 chair, now affectionately called the
Playboy Chair, with which Jens Risom is posing. And if you blinked, you may have missed the two fully restored C140s we had in the store. They were exquisitely restored with the exact fabric and same cane the chair in the photo had. Take a look at these beauties.
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| C140 "Playboy Chairs" by Jens Risom at the store |
These were, hands down, the most accurately restored pieces we've ever had in the store, and they flew out the door yesterday before I could even publish this post. Before the end of the day, the new owners had visited our Facebook page to share a picture of the chairs in their home.
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| Jens Risom C140s in their new home |
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| Jens Risom, whose 96th birthday is coming up May 8. |
