Rebirth of a Chair

This is a project I did for one of my Interior Design classes. It is a chair that I reupholstered. I took about 400 pictures in order to make this video. Please let me know what you think.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Rebirth
• Chair
• Twelve
• Seventeen
• Stop
• Motion
• Reupholster

[murrykiki]

Why would you take a chair,instead of restoring it, put plywood,foam rubber and the ugliest upholstery from the 1960's on it? It should have been refinished,done properly in leather, or back to original velvet. No,you had to remove everything,paint it blue and add green based and matches nothing. Someday someone will get it from a yard sale, reupholster it correctly,while insulting the idiot who almost ruined a good chair.

I admire your skills as an upholsterer,but think about what your doing.

[1217designs]

First off let me just say thank you for watching my video. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and everyone is entited to their own style. I happen to like how I transformed this chair. It goes much better with my home now than it did. I don't live in an old victorian home and a tufted velvet chair doesn't really appeal to me, so I decided to redo this one in a different way. Like it says in the description I did this for a school project and the chair was free.

[1217designs]

I am also curious as to why you would insult someone you have never met especially about something that has nothing to do with you. Do you walk around in public telling random people that you don't like their outfits. I didn't do this chair for you so don't take it so personally

[Tajia]

Wow, that was... really awesome! I never knew reupholstering could be so dramatic. Your chair is pretty awesome looking, and the editing for the video was great. Worth all of the work you put into it, I think.

: )

[chooken83]

excellent video, chair is gorgeous too.

[silverchairPrincessx]

can i ask how you got the metal studs off? i am trying to do something similar :)

[Inhimillinen]

Wery nice but the music is disturbing

[egombos]

What is the make/color of the spray paint used?

[ForeverComplaining]

@HUETOOB I don't like it and I commented quite negatively, I'm not jealous, It just annoys me so much that this person could ruin such a lovely antique. I did say they were talented to be fair... but they ought to work with argos furniture, not antiques.

[ForeverComplaining]

You are very talented, but I would NEVER let you touch my furniture nor would I ever give you my antiques for free.

That new chair is awful, it's nice to see how talented you are, but seriously?!!!!!!

[ForeverComplaining]

@murrykiki I agree with you, LOL! People have no taste now a days. They'd rather throw away something classy and regal and replace it with something that looks like the argos furniture.

[CarCriticAssessor]

@takemondu: You said it aptly -- read my comment above; these poor kids .... obviously have idiotic ill-informed teachers .... who should be arrested for design felonies; another, serious mid-century quality piece destroyed unwittingly: outrageous. The kid brags that he got it in school for free -- WTF .. talk about blowing a free-lunch ... learn over these next twenty years ... with hope how to meticulously remove that nasty paint and reupholster it, tufted; as recommended above!

[CarCriticAssessor]

Another case of unwitting destruction of a high-quality, period, hand-crafted hardwood-frame, mid-century (prized by educated collectors) French Provincial slipper chair's c. late 1940's - early 1960's boudoir artifact legacy. Wrecked are its original masterfully complex finish, for neither good reason nor end. You would have been better off simply reupholstering it -- the tufting alone is labor intensive, too – with eg. new piping or carry-over fancy fabric accents inserts on lip and back.