Stemming not so much from Fleur-de-lis ‘what ever you desire‘
LA Confidential style though it totally suits the era, as channelling the ancient Egyptian symbol of resurrection, these beautiful iconic 1958 SC58 Fler TV chairs have been given a complete new life.
A professional wood job, new cut foam and recovered in Designers Guild UK ice ice baby blue Mezzola macro suede [and yummy creamy white piping] they may just be what you desire if genuine mid-century modern furniture is your thing.
FLER= an acronym for Fred Lowen and Ernest Rodeck, Jewish migrants who escaped Nazi Germany and came to Australia on the ‘hellship’ Dunera. The two strangers met at an Internment Camp in 1941, and with no experience in timber or furniture production went on to create many highly collectible mid century Australian classics, including this design, the SC55 with it’s cool paddle/ surfboard style arms and the sought after 1961 Narvik style.
You can read more about Fler here if you so desire
The Modernist Impulse : ABC National
OR if you like to look, please come here
Urban Rustic 6b Roberstson Rd Newport Beach
Lamp and Hawaiian barkcloth cushions also available.
So what do you think? They are going to be hard to let go…
Micro-suede never looked so good!
Um thanks Kylie, yeah I know faux suede is so not 1958 but I was hanging out for more of the rad chenille I did another Fler chair with but it’s discontinued now and I’m devo. So anyway, plan b is this pale blue colour which I love, but it’s just not practical in anything other than this super stain resistant fabric. Modern vintage. I’m not such a purist anyway… Thanks for being here x
beud-iful!
Thanks Edwina. I’m rapt with them. No dramas at all if they never sell. I’d probably prefer it… 🙂