It is a little known fact that red is actually a brilliant neutral. Fashiony people are often singing the praises of the red handbag on the basis that it will actually go with a lot more than you think. An all black outfit is given a little bit of zing with a red bag or red shoes. Even, at its very basic a slick of red lipstick can work wonders. I am so convinced by this that the other day I nearly did buy a red bag. I bottled it at the last minute as I was wearing an olive green top and panicked I would look like a Christmas tree so I went for burgundy instead, but I definitely left a little bit of my heart behind with the red bag in the shop.
Imagine my joy then when I saw this red leather dining chair and matching bar stool from the new French Connection Home collection. I have said before that I think FC have a really strong team in the homewares department and I am really really ( I mean REALLY) tempted to buy a red bar stool to sit next to my black kitchen cupboards. Or even a red chair. The other one is navy not black although as my cupboards are painted Railings, which can look navy in some lights that might even go as well.
Don't run away from the red as an accent people. In small doses it can look amazing.
There was a small fracas in The Mad House at the weekend over this chair above. I really want a new, small leather chair for the library. Himself does not agree. I want the chair above. He wants a pair of the chair below. He really likes the one below. I really like the one above. We're not not speaking but we are currently not speaking of chairs.
Mind you I didn't show him this next chair, which I also like. Perhaps we shall spend ALL our money on chairs. One small leather and two of these as compromise. I'm not even sure why I typed that. It ain't gonna happen.
Chairs though. I love chairs. And they're expensive because they're hard to make. I haven't even shown him the one I really like from Anthropologie. Mies van der Rohe (him wot made the Barcelona) said that it's almost easier to build a skyscraper than a chair. And he should know.
Funnily enough I sat in a Barcelona chair for the first time the other week. Now it's a piece I have always admired for its shape and design but I have always thought it looks so uncomfortable that I can't imagine why anyone would want one.
Then I sat in one. Oh. My (to coin a phrase) God. So comfortable. Now I get it. Now I want one. Mind you for the price of one of those I could probably have about 12 of these French connection chairs.
And I only want three. Bargain. Now where's my credit card.
What do you think of these chairs? Would you be tempted by red leather?
from Mad About The House http://ift.tt/1SeEOAV
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