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ECLECTIC TOPIC #1 - My Chair Poem MY CHAIR POEM SAVES ME $5,100.00!
I saw an article about chairs by Christine Canabou IN FAST COMPANY MAGAZINE called 'Seats of Power'. Pate 54, March 2002.
I loved her first line in the piece, quoted here: "Chairs are more than just a place to park out butts."
Canobou quotes Galen Cranz from IN THE CHAIR; RETHINKING CULTURE, BODY, AND DESIGN (W.W. NORTON & CO. 1998) Who states "The chair offers a glimpse into our collective ideas about status and honor, comfort and order, beauty and order, beauty and efficiency, discipline and relaxation.
Two final quotes Canabou finds from Jess Sorel, Director of Design at Metropolitain Furniture Corporation, a Steelcase Ince, company:
"We wanted people to act natural" and "Smart design helps identify what the action should be."
The cost of such a chair when modified into a four person booth is --you guessed it, a mere $5,100.
The Price is Right, here we come. Or rather, here's what Canabou's fine article inspired. A poem about, 'MY' CHAIR.
MY CHAIR, BY JOHN GEORGETTE
MY CHAIR saved me $5,100.00.
Esoteric ambiance oozes out of it free,
warn out cotton Mexican blanket laps it in it's own perfect contour industrial steel springs allow for a rock/tilt so far backwards, consciousness knows any other chair tumbles over onto itself but not my chair! --
which catches itself like in the highest moment of roller coaster ride before the decent and rocks itself peacefully to rest.
Faded Art Deco leaf patterns from 1925 repeat themselves over the whole surface, two carved half moons balance the snake face of wood arms curling out from leather so warn it molted decades ago into some other organic element scientifically yet to be named.
More comfortable than any bed,
beds compete with it to steal me into sleep and late at night with computer on lap,
undercurrents of radio filled white noise blend with television sounds as head drops off into never-never land of some good book or piece of my own writing inspired by My Chair from some other time.
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