Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Mid century metal lawn chairs


I found these mid century metal lawn chairs at an antique store yesterday.  I bought the rounded back one first.  This morning I took my coffee out on my deck and sat in my new old chair and and thought, this chair needs its fellow old chairs on my deck.  I told myself, to heck with plastic molded chairs I have.  I want mid century coolness on my deck.  So at noon I drove back down wishing nobody else had purchased them, and with luck they were still there.  So I bought the matching pair.
One of them is a rocker, but they all kind of bounce.  I really like the fiesta orange color but the blue one probably should be painted.  I've been looking for some of these for the longest time.  I suspect they are from the 1940s, but they've been painted a few times.  I think the original color on the pair was green seat and back with white arm rails.  I might paint the pair but I'm going to leave the single one with the rounded back just the way it is.

4 comments:

Jules said...

Those chairs are cool! I love that they sort of bounce a little bit. Wait to paint them, we could do that together. :)

don said...

Ok, I might have my neighbor put a couple of spot welds on the pair.

Jules said...

that's probably a good idea, if you think they need it

don said...

They don't really need it but the seat and the back are held together by interlocking tabs. Be good to put a spot weld at each end.