Pet Peeves of Interior Design Firms Los Angeles
I hate uncomfortable dining chairs!
Okay children, gather round. I’m going to read you a story. It is a monumental story of love and loss; a story of war and peace, of life and death strung through generation after generation each struggling to find their way through this tempestuous land… and while I read these 927 pages to you I’d like for you to perch your boney little behinds on these wooden pallets, with no back support, and which teeter on 3 legs.
While you do that, remember you should be well dressed, engaging and communicate well with those around you. Sounds like fun, doesn’t it. Well of course not. I would rather have dental surgery than sit through such a tedious exercise. But how many brunches, luncheons and dinner parties have I suffered in chairs selected (if not designed by) the Marquis de Sade himself.
In reference to his inevitable nap during Sunday morning church, my grandfather used to say that the mind can only absorb what the seat can endure. As the morning sermon droned on, grandpa’s mind lost the battle to his “seat of learning” and the requisite nap (much to the delight of his grandchildren) was born.
So all the fabulously fashionable festivities knowingly packed into your next fete’ will fall on dulled brains if you haven’t made certain that other weightier (theirs, not ours) body parts are gently caressed, pampered and cushioned.
Consider if you will the merits of the upholstered dining chair. When faced with the prospect of rigid plastic (thanks to our modernist masochistic mates) or tufted cotton velvet….which would you choose?
To answer this question, Dear Recumbent Reader, I beg of you one thing; forget for a moment your status as a card-carrying modernist, professing in zealous tones the virtues of form over function.
And acknowledge the general description of the dining chair in which you were last seen so lost in the heady weave of wine, epicedia and conversation that you lingered (without personal risk or injury) far into the night?
I could try guess of your experience, all day long, and not get anywhere; however, my personal experience is that the dining tables I linger at with the greatest easy and comfort are those blissfully supported by comfortably upholstered dining chairs.
