My daughter and I spent the day together playing Mini Monster Golf (totally, rocking fun), flying her new butterfly kite (not enough wind yet…), loitering over diner coffee & vanilla milk and visiting Myopic Books in Providence Rhode Island where we saw this cool reading chair. Myopic owner Kristin and her husband Daniel are artists, Daniel works at the Brown art department.
Rhode Island artist David Karoff welded the chair and attached the paperbacks: they have holes drilled though their insides and are slipped onto a hidden rebar frame. All of the materials are recycled - even the books, which are cast-offs from the Rochambeau Library Book Sales. Who wants one of these chairs?
We do!
Visit Myopic Books
Wow! Super cool. I’m so going over there to check it out.
Comment by Kristin — June 25, 2008 @ 12:56 pm
How does one acquire a chair like this? I love it.
Comment by Kate — July 16, 2008 @ 2:57 pm
Kate - Contact Kristen at the store, she may have more information. Jason
Comment by Jason Thompson — July 16, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
thanks for another entry in the 1001 Uses for a Book category on the Bibliophile Bullpen, it’s getting kind of crowded.
Comment by jgodsey — July 16, 2008 @ 9:01 pm
Must…have…that…chair…
Comment by Colleen Shea — July 17, 2008 @ 1:02 pm
Now if they could only make a toilet out of old romance novels and copies of The Da Vinci Code.
Comment by rr — July 18, 2008 @ 3:35 pm
That is the most amazing chair I have seen . . .ever! Would love that as my reading chair in my lounge.
Comment by golf blog — July 28, 2010 @ 6:04 am