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Interior design help needed!
So we've got two chairs that look like this:
Need suggestions for a couch that won't look horribly out of place next to them. Would prefer to go with the vaguely '30s (or 1920s-1940s) vibe I sort of get from them than the 1950s-60s mModern vibe. i.e it needs to look like something you'd see in a movie made from an Agatha Christie novel rather than an early James Bond movie.
In other words, while these chairs are cheap-and-cheerful Modern*, I'm going with the Art Deco/Art Moderne elements of them that I can see in these 1930s and 1930s-inspired club chairs.
I did find a couch sort of like the reproduction 1930s couches in the top photos here, at *shudder* Crate & Barrel, but it's $1500 (on sale in the store right now) and $1200 is really closer to my top limit. I'd prefer more like $800, which I know cuts out a lot of options, but would go to $1200 for the right sofa.
Plz to not be telling me to just buy what I love and they'll go together. I've been doing that for fifteen years and they do not go together, they look like crap together. I'd rather have a destination in mind.
ETA: Also, it needs to have arms large enough to sit back against when lounging reading a book. :)
* Which I can find EVERYWHERE I LOOK and am getting heartily tired of.
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Just adding links to furniture of the style that I like so I'll have them all in one place. These are things like vintage or vintage-inspired high-end furniture, not necessarily specific items I'm thinking about buying. :D
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadcc207.htm -- Plain, not too fussy. I like Deco/Moderne as a theme, not as a theme park.
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadcc181.htm
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadcc221.htm
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc53.htm - Hate the legs, though
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadcc204.htm
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc108.htm - Matches one of the chairs up there
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc72.htm - Hate the legs again, and don't love it, but there's something I can't quite pin down that I like.
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc56.htm - A little too "slouchy" for me - i.e. the cushions look a bit more like they're in slipcovers than I like. It's on the Modern end of the whole Modernist movement (Deco to Modern), but doesn't go too far into Modern territory for me. A Christie character might sit on it.
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc67.htm Don't like the cylinder pillows.
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc89.htm The Bauhaus is an option...
http://www.bgoecklerantiques.com/products.php?action=viewitem2&itemid=4144 Weeeelll... back too high, arms too low, and legs too spindly, but...
http://www.bgoecklerantiques.com/products.php?action=viewitem2&itemid=3762 Not too bad.
Need suggestions for a couch that won't look horribly out of place next to them. Would prefer to go with the vaguely '30s (or 1920s-1940s) vibe I sort of get from them than the 1950s-60s mModern vibe. i.e it needs to look like something you'd see in a movie made from an Agatha Christie novel rather than an early James Bond movie.
In other words, while these chairs are cheap-and-cheerful Modern*, I'm going with the Art Deco/Art Moderne elements of them that I can see in these 1930s and 1930s-inspired club chairs.
I did find a couch sort of like the reproduction 1930s couches in the top photos here, at *shudder* Crate & Barrel, but it's $1500 (on sale in the store right now) and $1200 is really closer to my top limit. I'd prefer more like $800, which I know cuts out a lot of options, but would go to $1200 for the right sofa.
Plz to not be telling me to just buy what I love and they'll go together. I've been doing that for fifteen years and they do not go together, they look like crap together. I'd rather have a destination in mind.
ETA: Also, it needs to have arms large enough to sit back against when lounging reading a book. :)
* Which I can find EVERYWHERE I LOOK and am getting heartily tired of.
-----
Just adding links to furniture of the style that I like so I'll have them all in one place. These are things like vintage or vintage-inspired high-end furniture, not necessarily specific items I'm thinking about buying. :D
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadcc207.htm -- Plain, not too fussy. I like Deco/Moderne as a theme, not as a theme park.
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadcc181.htm
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadcc221.htm
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc53.htm - Hate the legs, though
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadcc204.htm
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc108.htm - Matches one of the chairs up there
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc72.htm - Hate the legs again, and don't love it, but there's something I can't quite pin down that I like.
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc56.htm - A little too "slouchy" for me - i.e. the cushions look a bit more like they're in slipcovers than I like. It's on the Modern end of the whole Modernist movement (Deco to Modern), but doesn't go too far into Modern territory for me. A Christie character might sit on it.
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc67.htm Don't like the cylinder pillows.
http://www.decodame.com/decofurniture/fadsc89.htm The Bauhaus is an option...
http://www.bgoecklerantiques.com/products.php?action=viewitem2&itemid=4144 Weeeelll... back too high, arms too low, and legs too spindly, but...
http://www.bgoecklerantiques.com/products.php?action=viewitem2&itemid=3762 Not too bad.