- Vintage Ercol 203 easy chair: from £595, Vinterior
- Nimrod low armchair: £962.40
- Balzac armchair:: £2,380.00, Heal’s
As anyone who checks out our various blogs and socials will know, we’re doing up an old cottage. We’re currently working on the main bedroom. As with other houses that we’ve lived in, we like to retire to this room quite early in the evening… especially in the winter months.
With this in mind, we like a ‘loungy-bedroom’ feel to the space. This one has a very low, pitched ceiling… but we’ve identified one corner of the room that might accommodate a low-slung armchair. Perfect for sitting with a good book, listening to vinyl – or simply using it as a seat to put on shoes or slippers.
It got us to trawling the web for options. Our chair will obviously have to suit our old cottage, but the search brought to light a wide range of options for all manner of interior styles. Here are three examples at different price points.
The Ercol 203 easy chair was manufactured between 1953 and 1983. It was part of the Windsor range designed by Lucian Ercolani.
The Nimrod chair was designed by Marc Newson for Magis in 2002, but its looks hark back to the 1960s. It’s available in a range of bright colours; orange, yellow, purple and the green pictured above.
1991 saw the launch of the Balzac which was designed by Matthew Hilton and manufactured by SPC in their Norfolk factory. It’s available in two shades of leather and also in fabric and is included in Taschen’s book, 1000 Chairs by Charlotte & Peter Fiell.
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