Posted on 07/17/2011 3:49:07 PM PDT by Daffynition
You never know what you'll find next to a Dumpster.
That's where Chris Gulley of Rock Island spotted two authentic Cherner chairs, designed in 1958 by Norman Cherner and manufactured by the former Plycraft Inc. of Lawrence, Mass.
Gulley didn't know that immediately, though, on that day about 11 years ago when he was driving down Harrison Street in Davenport. All he knew is that the two chairs he saw sitting next to a Dumpster in an alley were very unusual-looking and that he wanted them.
"I knew instantly they were special, and I about killed us both turning the car around and getting back to them," he says. "I was nervous somebody else would get there first or that the people who threw them out would change their mind."
He discovered that they were Cherners when he got them home, turned them over and found a small gold identifying label on the bottom.
The Cherner chair is regarded as one of the most dramatic designs using the technology of molded plywood. The seat and back are a single shell connected by a slim and sturdy throat. Slender laminated legs and a solid wood arm with a graceful curve complete the design.
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“Installation for the Istanbul Biennial.”
Istanbul Biennial *WHAT*? Epic FAIL convention?
No, I have not gone back to that boulder.
But now I see my future.
And it is to return to that boulder.
And regain my near-vision.
Can't be the same glasses.
This poor fellow lost his glasses near Fair Oaks.
I found these more than 1,000 ft. above Pickelmeadow.
Fair Oaks...Pickelmeadow...Fair Oaks...Pickelmeadow...I just don't see the link...
I threw them out because they made my butt look big.
Much better. Would you get me a step ladder please? :D
You can retain your near vision at Walgreens, it would be so much easier.
I ... can’t ... stop ... watching ... this.....
Yes. Our gaydar meter may be burned out from over use.
Oh I am so jealous!
Did it have the original glass knobs? So many have been replaced, but the originals are much prettier. I live Empire furniture.
Why can’t I ever find good stuff in the trash? lol
I just put new batteries in mine. :D
I knobs are solid brass...round and quite detailed.
I nearly didn’t take it...but decided to, and kinda freaked out when I found the original key that unlocked the cupboards. The *key* captured me.
Some of the veneer has fallen off...but I’m fond of it.
They don’t look comfortable to me. That’s the kind of chair you’d leave for that visiting idiot cousin to sit in and hope it gets to them. But I’m an avowed scrounge, and it wouldn’t break my heart to find a couple of them (then off to e-Bay with them).
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