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(2014-03-09 21:34:25)Armchairs With Big Personalities
Neal
Beckstedt, an interior designer, tries out the Dinamarquesa
armchair, $9,700, at Espasso in TriBeCa.
For Neal Beckstedt, designing a room
often begins with an armchair.
“I usually
start with a chair, because it gives so much personality to a
room,” said Mr. Beckstedt, a New York interior designer. “It says a
lot about a client’s taste.”
Armchairs can help
anchor a living room, he said, or can be used in less conventional
places — on the periphery of a kitchen or in a home
office.
“You don’t need to be
working at a task chair anymore,” he said. “You can be working on
your laptop or iPad in an armchair.”
Mr. Beckstedt, 35,
usually designs in a modern aesthetic, but he tries to make his
version of modernism feel as relaxed as possible.
“Modern can go cold a
lot of times,” he said, “so it’s always about trying to make it
warm
and comfortable.”
That’s another thing armchairs are good for.
Looking for a few
examples, he visited Espasso in TriBeCa, where he was immediately
taken with the Dinamarquesa chair by Jorge Zalszupin, with its
laid-back imbuia wood frame and curvaceous armrests.
“The style can go all
modern, or you could put it in a traditional space,” he said,
adding that it just might be the perfect chair because it offered
comfort, versatility and fine craftsmanship.
But that didn’t stop
him from proceeding to the store’s lower level and admiring the
Vronka chair by Sergio Rodrigues, which was a far cry from the
standard-issue club chair, with its upholstered scoop of a seat
held in a beechwood base.
“You don’t always want
to sit in a cube,” he said. “I just love chairs that are
sculptural.”
At Wyeth in Hudson
Square, he found another favorite: the Papa Bear chair by Hans
Wegner.
“I have one of these in
almost every single project,” Mr. Beckstedt said. “It can disappear
into a corner or it can be playful.”
He also liked the “’70s
chic” Joe Colombo black plastic armchair from Property, but for
different reasons.
“It’s obviously not the
most comfortable chair, but it’s a statement piece,” he said. “In
every apartment, you need things you can talk about.”
And from Moroso, he
singled out the Fjord Relax chair by Patricia
Urquiola.
“I love how it looks
like a baseball glove,” he said.
But if a chair doesn’t
have armrests, a reporter protested, can it really be considered an
armchair?
“It’s pushing the
limits,” he said, noting that the chair offered a certain amount of
support for weary arms. “It’s just barely an
armchair.”
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