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Yesterday RocketMan and I took a jaunt through the furniture stores in the Mission, and found two rockers that are near-perfect for our needs: small footprint, comfortable, and super-cool looking, to boot. Alas, one cost $1300, and the other, $450. We’re in the market to spend $300-ish at most, although I’d be willing to go higher if it’s a Danish modern like this beauty. Which, incidentally, was the $1300 model. My suggestion is that we clear everything off our registry and start a Buy Us The Awesome Rocker Fund, but I know my mom and his dad would both have coronaries if we suggested $1300 was a good price for a chair. |
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This rocker is a bit more in our price range, and I mentioned it in my last blog—the beauty of it is that it bounces, as opposed to rocking, which will be less annoying to our downstairs neighbors. At $250, I’d be willing to grab one of these, even if it’s not all finished up and pretty. We saw one at the Alameda Flea Market last time, and I’m hoping it’ll still be there when we return. The real problem with this guy is that it doesn’t seem to have a maker OR name, according to the cashier at The Touch. (Which is a beautiful store with beautiful things, but smells exactly like stale poo, and thus made us balk even more at the chair’s $450 pricetag.) And the tag only said “Vintage Rocker,” which, I’m guessing, will bring more images of 70s hair bands than rocking chairs on Google; searching “adult-sized bounce chair” brings me to sex toys I didn’t know existed. So if you see this anywhere in your internet or store wanderings, let me know, please! |
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Our final rocking chair choice is a classic, and, like the Danish modern, will never go out of style, but I’m still not convinced of its efficacy for our purposes. Mr. Eames’s plastic chair is one of my favorites, and it’s deceptively comfortable, but I do wonder if the low back will be too low for late-night nursing. That said, at $345 for a new fiberglass knockoff—or $479 for a polypropelene licensed version— it would be a lifetime investment. |
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You need this sucker!!! http://stlouis.craigslist.org/fuo/1143201891.html
That bouncing chair…was the bouncing part wood or metal? I’d love to make a version of this.
By the way, if it’s not too late I think you would miss the tall back for nursing. Many a night I saw my wife pass out nursing our daughter with her head nicely resting on the back of our rocker.
Alas, yes, it is too late, as we’ve bought the chair and I’m kind of in love with it! The headrest was a big consideration, but in the end, what we’d love in our place for years won out over some comforts. If we had an additional room where the rocker would hide, that’d be different. You might want to check out Ikea’s site for a wooden version of the bouncer.
The bouncing part was metal. Both that I sat in were remarkably comfortable, although you may have to work a bit harder to get movement going than in, say, a smooth rocker or glider. By the by, your site is terrific!
I have 2 of the bouncy Rockers and will be listing them soon.. They actually came from a hospital in the 60′s..