Q:I mean there are thousands of beautiful and esthetically pleasing chair designs, so why is this one considered so iconic?And the knoll's price of $4000+ for a chair?? RIDICULOUS!

You have to look at the chair in its original context. Look at other furniture from 1929 and you won't see anything else like the Barcelona chair. Mies van der Rohe and Lily Reich were pioneers for designing this chair from heir choice of materials, minimal lines, construction (stainless steel had just been developed). When properly built to original specs, it takes a lot of high quality materials and skilled labor to produce -- around 28 hours of labor is involved. $3900 is not much for 28 hours of labor considering all the sales people, craftsmen, managers, suppliers, delivery people, laborers needed to build and move one chair. Plus all those people require work buildings, offices, insurance, cars/trucks, phones... etc. $3900 only gets you the cheaper model, there is one made of higher grade materials at $6,000. When the chair was originally designed, it did not sell for that dollar amount, the price has been adjusted for inflation, but it still was not cheap back then, it is and will always be an exclusive item. Surely, the chair can be mass-produced by machine now and sold for cheap at Target, but then it wouldn't be an exclusive item anymore. BMW and Lexus could cheapen their products for everyone to have, but then, why bother? There are Corollas and Ford Focus for the ones who don't want to/can't spend the money. By the way, it's not a simple chair at all, it's very complex, it just looks simple because in the past 7 decades, other chair designers were inspired by that iconic design. It;s iconic because it was ground-breaking, an original thought at the time. To say it is simple is to say paper is simple... yes it sort of is, but it took humans millions of years to get around to inventing it.

Q:i am a barber cuttin out of holland michigan, my chair use to pump up to my eye level, and now im stuck hurtin my back bending over to get the client done,. my chair pumps up about 4 pumps i need some advice to fix this chair. i just want it to pump up as high as it use togt;gt;?

Barber Chair Hydraulic Pump

Q:I found a very cool shaped very old chair at a junk shop for $5. It is in fairly good shape and sturdy (none of the arms or legs wiggle). But it is missing the seat, which I would imagine was one time a woven cane seat that has fell out. I would prefer not to re-cane a new seat (I have done this before, but I don't find it comfortable to sit on this type of seat and they don't wear well). I would much rather put in a padded upholstered seat, but am not sure how? There is just a large hole in the middle where the seat used to be, and I'm having trouble thinking of ways to attach a piece of wood with padding and upholstery. It doesn't have to be super sturdy, as it won't have more than a 170lb person in it, and will more than likely not be used daily (it will be for our bedroom). Any ideas?Chair similar to this one (no seat)- http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~wayne/Caning/roundchair.JPG

Get a piece of 1/4 or 3/8 plywood at a building center (places like Home Depot usually have small cuts, like 24 x 24 which is all you need.) Use a piece of large paper or cardboard to trace the outline of the seat on the chair , all the way to the outside edge. Using the pattern, then cut the wood in that shape. At the fabric store buy a piece of 1 or 1 1/2 thick foam rubber (back in the drapery department) and cut that to fit on top of the wood. Then add about a 1 thick layer on top of polyester quilt batting (from the fabric store) on top of that. Cut a piece of the seat fabric you want to use about 4 bigger on all sides (so 8 each direction) than the wood seat. Lay the fabric out on a table, flip your wood with the padding over so the padding is on the bottom, against the fabric. Fold and stretch the excess fabric over the wood and use a staple gun to attach it snugly along all 4 sides. Make small folds at the corners to keep it smooth (like tucking in the sheets on a bed). if you're satisfied with how the seat now looks, pick up the chair, turn it upside down and center the it over the wooden back of the padded seat you just made. Use four wood screws just 1/4 longer than the thickness of the chair seat frame and drill through the chair (the frame that would have supported to caning) into the seat wood backing. If the wood is soft enough and the screws are thin you can just use a screw gun but it would be better to pre-drill a small pilot hole first - just make sure you don't go through the padding and fabric. I've done it many times -- in fact just last week did that with two antique chairs from my parents' estate that had blown out caning.

Q:I heard chair squats make your but bigger and i need a bigger butt so how do you do them and how many should i do to make my butt look better?

chair okorder /... Have a great day! And here is to a better, fitter you!

Q:This chair is very common in hotel conference rooms, weddings and other events. Does anyone know where did the design come from ? or who was the first to produce this kind of chair ?

Please be more specific about the design features of a 'banquet chair'. I can't imagine the same style of chair being suitable both for a wedding feast and for a meeting e.g. for taking notes, small fold-up 'table' attached.

Q:It still hurts in the spot where I hit the chair. Wondered if this has happened to anyone else? I am hoping it didn't harm the baby. Don't want to rush and call the doc or anything just yet, but what signs should I look for? Obviously if I start bleeding or something crazy I will go straight to the er, but I am just concerned that I might have just hurt my little one!

They are WELL protected in their little bubble. I'd just put a warm pack on it if it hurts and just relax and kick back.

Q:How DSP despa boss chair quality, good reputation

It has been heavily used in staff chairs.The backrest 1. is beneficial to maintain human spine natural shape, in order to prevent the occurrence of people sit down lumbar shape unnatural twist to disc to bear too much pressure, affect people's health, the chair back cushion must be suitable for human engineering.The 2. seat for the body shape of the three degrees of the surface, the seat surface shape according to human engineering to the creation of the thigh and buttocks can be added below the seat and then spread touch area, and reduce the local pressure to promote blood circulation and reduce leg nerve compression, and reduce a lot of heat away the incidence of the disease, such as prostate, female gynecological diseases.3. in addition to have accurate radian, the key is to sit for comfortable, we must pay attention to the quality of office chair cushion, need to use precision, good elastic effect, the scientific design of uniform density cushion and back cushion can;The high price makes the service life very high, so as to achieve better cost performance.

Q:I bought this chair but it's hard for me to push the wheels in. Any tips??

You could leave the wheels on but get a needle nose pliers and reach in by the wheel axle to grab bunches of the stuck hair. You should be able to yank it out section by section.

Q:I'm pretty / 100% sure it was William Kemmler because he was the first person to be electrocuted or fried in the chair!! Am I right?

Alfred Southwick came up with idea to use electricity to execute people. Since he was a dentist, he made his device in the form of a chair. Harold Brown built the first electric chair for the Thomas Edison company. He used George Westinghouse's alternating current because Edison's direct current was losing favour.

Q:i was sitting in my chair checking my email and the chair jerked to the right and now the seat is cooked and its weird becuase when i straightened it out by hand i sat back down and then ittilted to the otherside and now it tilts so bad it almost dumps me out what broke and what can i do to fix it? no i dont weigh much just 150 and the chair is old. so can i save it or just buy a new one, becuase this one is leather and i like it T_T

Check around the chair as there are parts that have become loose and have fallen to the floor. Some are just screws and others are screws with a handle attached. If that is not the problem wait till morning and go have a look at a store for a new chair. Without looking at it. It is going to be a problem to fix.