Fwd: Re: Cob: dog house and doorways....

[Kristen Wilson]

More chair preferences - I'm a big fan of stools, very mobile and versatile 
furniture options. When I lived in the middle east there lots of stools and 
low tables about so you could set up an impromptu breakfast spot on the roof 
or make a space for guests having tea even in a small room. They're easy to 
get on and off at any angle, great now for doing my book repair work which 
involves sitting at a table but then jumping up frequently to put a book in 
a press or stack it under weights. Carved african stools are lovely and feel 
very right with cob aesthetics, although higher stools with more generous 
seats are more congenial for Americans with big bottoms and bad knees. (I do 
like cushions on the floor too, though.)

Kristen


>From: "D.J. Henman" <henman at it.to-be.co.jp>
>Reply-To: "D.J. Henman" <henman at it.to-be.co.jp>
>To: coblist at deatech.com
>Subject: Re: Cob: dog house and doorways....
>Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 11:34:16 +0900
>
>Fascinating all this talk about big chairs.....    I say this because at 
>home I use a  two to three inch thick sitting pillow on tatami mats.   Easy 
>to move around and to clean to.  In a sense I suppose you could say that 
>the entire floor is my chair.   I forgot about those behemoth chairs.
>
>Darel
>---------------------------------
>Mary Hooper wrote: (in resonse to Michael's two large chairs through a 
>narrow door.)
>
>>.. snipped ..We have two leather recliners.... (think of Blondie and 
>>Dagwood in the horizontal) ..one of them has an unanticipated feature: the 
>>back slides up and off the base, making a manageable two parts to take 
>>through narrow doorways.... found it in Hickory, NC furniture mart.... 
>>snipped
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