I remember reading once in the Bodleian that we sit on an average of 7 different chairs per day. At that time the statistic meant little or nothing because I was attempting to translate the Venerable Bede from the Latin and since the Anglo Saxon era, seating has moved on apace.
But when you come to think of it, one of the first things you do after extracting yourself from the pit in the morning is to sit yourself on the loo. That's 1. Then you might, if the sinews are creaky, perch on a bathroom chair to pull up the old socks. That's 2. Then I assume, if you're not a masochist, you might plonk yourself down at the breakfast table on some form of seating, and of course that's 3. And you're not even out of the house. Number 4 might be on a bus, a taxi, a train, a cross flannel cherry or some other such conveyance to work, where you gravitate towards number 5 - your faithful old office chair. You might spend a good portion of the day there cogitating and scheming and part of those schemes might be to obtain a more prestigious office chair with ergonomic suspension and chrome doo-dahs to improve your status or comfort or both. Let's face it, we are half way through the day and already your backside has enhanced a minimum of 5 sorts of chairs. We are going to be way above the average by close of play.
Think of the tea breaks in the canteen on minimalistic birch wood torture chairs, the sneaky meeting on a Victorian bench down the corridor or the interview with Mr Big on a stacking banquet chair of brutalist aspect. The compulsory comfy chair during your televisual encounters with Jeremy Paxman, Paul Merton and Chris Tarrant. But you need to keep sitting on more chairs to help balance up the average with the incarcerated masses, some 90,000 at present level, who wake up in a cell, have no comfy chair, and are let out for 30 mins to stretch their legs and reflect on who is supporting their livelihood.
Since we started handling funky chairs, hand sofas, 2-hand couches, lip-sofas, thrones, egg-chairs, globe chairs and pod chairs to name but a phew, we lifted the lid on a whole new market and the propensity for the British to assume the sitting position on almost any form of chair or chaise.
Luckily we had no pre-conceptions about teaching the public what they should learn to love and we found the more outrageous the model, the more it endeared itself to our clientèle. We are working on an inflatable Boris Johnson at this minute and should you wish to sit on the Mayor contact us for more information or novel suggestions.
To see all of our Novelty Chairs Click Here...