The Moller Chair: another $50P

Two days later, I am still in possession of all ten of my fingers. I think I can officially call Thanksgiving Break 2009 a success! I also finished up two projects, the first of which I’d like to share with you today!

The Horse Whisperer and I were walking near my old apartment one day in June. Up ahead, I spotted this beauty on the side of the road:

I have a massive crush on Danish midcentury furniture. This chair is most likely a knock-off of a Moller chair (model 71, for those of you who might be interested).  As you can see in my “before” shot above, the cord seat had been completely demolished, but I fell in love anyway. This is the moment in the story when the Horse Whisperer is a knight in shining armor: HW noticed my adoring gaze, hoisted the chair up on his shoulder, and carried it two miles back to his (and now our) apartment.

I immediately began plotting my repair of this chair. A simple google search turned up loads of companies that make danish seat cording, so I ponied up $35 and ordered a set of supplies from Chair Seat Weaving Dot Com.

Which languished in our apartment for months.

Finally, at the beginning of August, I removed the broken cording and began to weave. Dudes. It sucked. It was an absolute and complete pain in the arse. I hated it. Thus, the chair was cursed at, shoved into a closet, and forgotten.

For some reason, though, last week I became obsessed with the determination that I would finish it. Two nights of hard labor, millions of splinters, and a bottle of two-buck chuck later, it was finished.

It isn’t perfect by any means, but I’m incredibly proud of it. At some point, I will probably decide to do it again – hopefully down the road, when my home improvement skills have been honed. For now, however, I will sit in my chair and enjoy the fact that I’ve restored something to its previous beautiful and useful state. That’s just fine by me!