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Objects of Design #105: Vintage Cinema Seats

vintage cinema seats
vintage cinema seats

You might think this is a touch leftfield as a storage item but the first obvious answer is what is a chair if not storage for the body (or perhaps just bottom) and the second, less obvious, is that storage is about finding space to put things and the joy of these folding seats is that they provide extra chairs for very little extra space.

The third and fourth reasons for including them are that it’s my blog and I’ll include what I want, and also because I want them. I have wanted some vintage cinema seats for ever. But, for a short period of time when we were doing up the house and, more specifically, putting in the heating system, I forgot that I wanted them and ended up with a radiator in the hall which has taken up all the space and means that there is no space left for these.

I have tried to justify putting them on the landing but the truth of the matter is that nobody stops to sit down on a landing – not really, not enough to justify losing space to a couple of chairs.

I did also think about putting a row of three or four along one wall by the kitchen table, but our table, which is an old art school one, is too high for most chairs so that didn’t work either. Which is how I come to be sharing them with you.

Unless of course anyone has any fabulous suggestions. They’re 105cm wide in a row of two, just in case you’re thinking about it. For me, or for you of course.

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Kate Watson-Smyth

The author Kate Watson-Smyth

I’m a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.