The Green Chair

I first mentioned the green chair in this post, then again here.  To catch some of you up to speed, the green chair was a vintage piece of furniture Franz had in his house as a child.  This chair has a lot of memories attached to it.
Franz has talked about this chair every now and then for as long as I've known him.  We started talking about it again one day, and I asked him if his dad was still using the chair or if he would consider letting Franz have it.  A few email exchanges later and his dad had boxed it up, sent it via Greyhound freight and it arrived two weeks later.  Cost:  $89 from upstate New York to southern California.  Best way to ship ever!  His dad generously paid for it and we were excited to get going on refurbishing it.

We think the chair is from the 60's.  It's definitely got a mid-century vibe to it.  The existing fabric was this hard to describe fuzzy green almost shag.  I have never seen anything like it, and I've seen a lot of fabric in my line of work.  Of course since Franz has always fondly called this the 'green chair', we knew we wanted to find a new green fabric that would bring it into this century, yet still retain the vintage feel.

After a ton of searching, we finally found the perfect fabric, a green chenille with a subtle modern chevron pattern.  The fabric is super soft, and the chevron gives it the retro look we were hoping for.  I dropped it off at the upholsterers and a few weeks later it was ready to pick up.

Here's a picture up close of the subtle pattern:

The kids are already enjoying lounging:

And doing some reading:

It's perfect, and comfortable (really, really comfortable!) and already making memories for the next generation.  Hopefully when our girls are older, they will have many stories of their own to tell about the green chair.