What is your favourite item of furniture?

[Cloo]

I really like our BoConcept sofa - we could have gone cheaper, but it's really nice and comfy. It's a version of this model, but ours is brown, with the chaise on the other size and on dark wooden block legs:

We didn't even realise this when we bought it, but it's the perfect length for gsv to lie across and me to lie on the chaise!

 

[wayward bob]

ekornes stressless recliner, 70s model, classic. as a special treat we let my 5-year old lie flat while we spin it and shine a torch on her so she can pretend to be a cd

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I love my bookshelves. When we moved out of our tiny flat into a bigger place I got a carpenter to put in wall to wall and floor to ceiling shelves on opposite sides of the sitting room. I love my shelves.

 

[spanglechick]

my big brass bed

like that one, but brass throughout (no black bits). Tis king sized and has wine-coloured covers, and is offically my favourite place in the whole wide world.

It was expensive (around a grand sans mattress) but i've had it nearly 5 years now, and even if that was it, it will have been worth every penny. But it's solidly made and will last for ages.

 

[mattie]

My folks gave us their old ladderex stuff, made of solid wood and modular - lovely stuff.

It has a drinks cabinet, which contains one decent bottle of whiskey, one decent bottle of cognac and a load of other rank spirits we only ever touch at new year's.

We've also got a bright orange chair, similar to wayward bob's but a bit more decrepit. Photos may follow, but we've still got to put our house back together after the kitchen went in.

 

[Cloo]

as a special treat we let my 5-year old lie flat while we spin it and shine a torch on her so she can pretend to be a cd

LOL! I love the mad way kids can be amused!

 

[Looby]

My sofas. It's the first new sofas we have had and they are lovely italian leather, very comfy and I love them.

Other than that I have a gorgeous dressing table which I bought from BHF for 25 quid, I've sprayed it as my room is cream and it looks lovely. It's got a tilting mirror and glass top I just need to get some better drawer knobs for it.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

I cant choose just one favourite, I am now realising how fond i am of my furniture
My bed is my great, iron frme with nice curvy bits so it kind of looks like a sleigh....
My sofa which is very comfy and was an absolute bargain
My foldable chair/footstool thing
Little step I bought from ikea which is also a sidetable
My dining table, solid oak and expandable. Paid more than I ever said I would pay for a table but I do just love it. In fact if I had to choose a favourite piece it would be this because it was the first piece of quality, expensive, grown up furniture I bought
Also, my tv storage thing which is dark wood, never thought I would buy any darkwood furniture but i just love this thing with it's nice drawers with elephants on, loads of room for everything and yet still neat and not too big. It doesnt look like a tv cabinet, it looks like a nice little cabinet you could put a tv on. big difference.

I am looking for an armchair but I'm now so fussy about furniture tht I want to really love it before I buy it.

 

[lynne8]

This http://www.jensen-lewis.com/images/product/1B60-02-cs503_ELEVEN_open_P95.jpg

because I bought it eight weeks ago and it was delivered on Friday from Italy.

It's got a smoked glass top and it's a coffee table that with a touch underneath, lifts to become a dining table.

it's gorgeous!!

 

[maya]

A very comfortable secondhand easy chair which has followed me for years now, and a beautiful, tiny drawer also found at the same fleamarket...
Both of these nearly ruined by a sloppy guy from the removers when i moved house, though-
He used the drawer to prop up the entrance door, which is about a zillion tonnes and made of metal... Nearly smashed the thing flat as a pancake, if I hadn't seen it later and rescued it... Not content with ruining that piece of furniture, he took all the shelves from the bookcase and plonked them down on the arm rest of my chair, chipping chunks of the wood when the planks slid down and ruining the polish... Cunt.

(Moral is: never trust "cheapest on market" removers! There's usually a reason why they are so cheap! )

 

[Gavin Bl]

my uncle Brychan's chair - I think its called an 'admiral's chair' - a very comfy wooden number with a low but supportive back.

My Dad got it after Brychan died, and I have made my intention to inherit this item clear to Pater.

 

[Geri]

my big brass bed

I have that exact bed! I love beds with bedknobs on.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

The Stingray Chair arrived this morning,. At the moment it is sitting in the Bay window as I need to get some plastering done where I want to place the bookshelves, which this will sit under.

I have just tried sitting in it with a book and my feet up. It feels like you are floating and it hugs your back. Very cosy.

 

[ChrisFilter]

Just ordered a big, bendy, huge motherfucker of a leather sofa for the new house. It's brilliant, hugely comfy and huge. Bling!

 

[Structaural]

The loo dunno what I'd do without it.

Other than that my round coffeetable, bought it 20 years ago in a charity shop in Norwood and it's till going strong.

 

[Pip]

I have just tried sitting in it with a book and my feet up. It feels like you are floating and it hugs your back. Very cosy.

That's exactly what my wassily chairs feel like. They look like they'll be really uncomfortable because they're all cantilevered leather and sharp and bauhausy, but they're amazingly comfy. They've made me really lazy, because I'll be pottering about my room when I think "cor that's a beautiful chair, let me sit in it for a moment to show my admiration" and twenty minutes later I'm still there going "ahhhhhhhh".

 

[butterfly child]

The pyramid chest of drawers from The Pier.

Or my table, from John Lewis.

Or my handmade, hand carved four poster bed.

 

[ringo]

Comfy bed.
Home made record shelves 'cos they contain my tunes. The 7" singles pine cabinet I made from scratch, hoping now to do some sort of cabinet maing course.
Home made coffee table made from oak floor boards.
1940's dressing table and drawers inherited from my Gran. My Mum, me and my daughter all slept in the top drawer when newly born.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

my leather swivel chair. here it is a second ago...

are you sniffing aerosols?

 

[Vintage Paw]

The Stingray Chair arrived this morning,. At the moment it is sitting in the Bay window as I need to get some plastering done where I want to place the bookshelves, which this will sit under.

I have just tried sitting in it with a book and my feet up. It feels like you are floating and it hugs your back. Very cosy.

Lordy - looks like you have a rather swanky pad there Boris

 

[kittyP]

Unfortunatly I don't own/have any of my favorite items of furniture.

 

[mattie]

The Stingray Chair arrived this morning,. At the moment it is sitting in the Bay window as I need to get some plastering done where I want to place the bookshelves, which this will sit under.

I have just tried sitting in it with a book and my feet up. It feels like you are floating and it hugs your back. Very cosy.

It looks like it's melted. Did you put it too close to the radiator?

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I did fall asleep in it with a beer in my hand last night. How do you wash sheepskin?

 

[Vintage Paw]

I've just noticed it has rockers. Ooh, lovely.

It's not quite to my taste, but I've always wanted a sumptuous rocking chair type thing.

 

[maya]

Boris, that chair is very Space Age/bachelor pad- like!
What does your girllfriend say when you choose to lounge in that instead of sitting with her in the sofa?
Have you started arguing over whose turn it is to use the chair yet? (From the look of it, it can't hold two people at a time?)

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

The dining table and chairs came today, they are lovely. Cant wait to have a dinner party soon.

Arne Jacobsen series 7 chairs, Piet Hein Super Eclipse Table. Both for Fritz Hansen.

 

[Cid]

Boris your place is so fucking stylish!

Lots of critical regionalist stuff going on... <is jealous>

 

[Detroit City]

What are your favourite items of furniture?

me bed

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

Boris your place is so fucking stylish!

Lots of critical regionalist stuff going on... <is jealous>

thanks. it ain't finished yet, we are putting a new kitchen in and building a extra floor upstairs with a roof terrace and a larger living room.
I am trying to get all furniture from Danish designers.

 

[idioteque]

Bed