Chairs: A Study in Appropriating Furniture to the Living Space
I spent my weekend obsessing over chairs. For various reasons, I have spent the last 6 months living without chairs. And during this time (heretofore to be known as the Age of the Chairlessness) I have come to realize and appreciate how important chairs are to my sense of human connection and the possibility of community. Now, mind you, I have a couch. So, it’s not like there’s nowhere for my guests sit (I also have a lovely floor…more on that later). However, there is something about chairs that ask for less commitment than a couch, that make people feel independent. Couches ask for serious intimacy. They are saying, “Come and merge with my vibe.” However, with chairs people need not be afraid of getting towed into someone else’s space or pheromone range. In the world of medicine, FM is a relatively new disease and there’s a lot of controversy cheap viagra without prescription surrounding etiology. Everyday thousands of men all over the world also have joined to produce the generic medicine along with this buy canada cialis. You need good chemical free cleansing purchase cheap viagra deeprootsmag.org products to clean the skin every day. Kenpo was sildenafil uk buy actually introduced by Prof. Chairs are like, “Yeah, I’m here talking to you and connecting, but I’m not finding out what you had for lunch or anything. This is fun but I might jump up at any moment and get some juice or show you my latest Yoga position.”
The other drawback of my couch is that I have these beaded pillows that frequently stab my guests with their stray wires and that everyone who sits on my couch, without exception, wants to destroy (but I THINK THEY MAKE MY COUCH LOOK NICE!).
Lastly, let us not forget the important role chairs play in the functionality of dining tables. I’ve been eating Japanese style for about two years and while I’d like to believe it’s because of my open attitude to various cultural traditions, the truth is…I WAS JUST TOO DAMN CHEAP to spend $150 on cheap dining room furniture. Which gets us to some important lessons that I would like to share in this blog. And that is this:
Lesson #1: If you buy a table from Pier 1, you damn well better buy the chairs that match (even if they each cost more than the table). Because if you don’t, your dining set won’t look arty and original, it’ll just look weird.
Lesson #2: Chairs are an important item in community life.
Just for today, I can appreciate the importance of chairs and the intelligence of corporate entities.