Grant Featherston chairs

I love mid-century furniture. I think our home is in a time warp. People who love new furniture walk into our house and usually don't know what to make of it. Nothing really modern - all old furniture and collectables with old prints of nudies decorating the wall. Lots of glassware. Lots of Aussie pottery. Lots of things made in the 1970s and before...



I have always dreamt of coming across a Grant Featherston chair - no design in particular - any of them would do! I love his form and silhouette - particularly the legs, for some reason. His design epitomises mid-century chic to me...



Perhaps I will come across that old furniture place in the back blocks somewhere - some place no antiques dealer has visited. And I'll walk through the old hallways...on one side shall be a room filled with vintage fabric...and in the other shall be a Grant Featherston chair. Just waiting for me.

The start of Retro Age overhaul #1

A Grant Featherston R160 Armchair And Ottoman Unmarked circa 1953 The contoured wing back of moulded ply with the original buttoned orange upholstery raised on out swept hardwood legs together with a matching ottoman

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I am streamlining. The admittance of the Gemini side getting in the way of structure has propelled me to streamline things even more! There are going to be a few changes around here - thus far, have decided on:

1. We are going to start offering snap sales. But you have to subscribe to the website new arrivals list to be eligible for sales. We're trying to be fair :)
2. The Vintage Day blog is going to be very vintage soon - in fact, dead. More vintage stuff on here instead. Like the Featherston chair above. If it's vintage, is crafty, involves fabric or fibre or fab interiors, then it'll be here. It was too much keeping two blogs going!
3. More stock. More lovely stock. More stock.

Another lamp shade tutorial coming later today!


A Grant Featherston R160 Armchair And Ottoman Unmarked circa 1951. The contoured wing back of moulded ply with buttoned velvet upholstery raised on out swept hardwood legs; together with a matching ottoman.

Grant Featherston chairs - The Vintage Day

I am having such fun with my new blog, The Vintage Day. I love vintage. I love viewing vintage - and I love collecting it. I adore Grant Featherston design and have always wished to come across a chair for $2. You know the dream.

Six degrees - I know an architect who designed Heide II (Heide - Museum of Contemporary Art, Templestowe) and he also knew Grant Featherston. Found out a few weeks ago he flew to Finland and Japan in the 1960s to evaluate which design ethic 'suited' Australia better. Finland won. He visited the original Marimekko factory and his face, even though he's now in his 80s, lights up when he talks about it. He loved their super graphic prints and brought some curtains back to his own home. And then piffed them out when his design ethic changed. I said Bah! to him and he laughed his head off. Hmmmm....