Brandon gave me a new Eames chair for my birthday! And a Panton. And a few more by Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, and Mies van der Rohe. And then some additional Eames chairs for good measure. They’re miniature sized (but they’re big on cute).
I picked up a miniature zen garden that came with a cute little chair about a month ago, and I thought it was pretty adorable. I had no idea at the time that Brandon had seen a whole slew of mini designer chairs and that he was already planning to give them to me for my birthday. Eleanor is going to have a really awesome dollhouse someday.
What a cool and thoughtful gift. Good work, Brandon!
Oh my, where are the from?! There are amazing!!
absolutely gorgeous and i adore them.
LOVE THEM!! So cute! And a great way to feed that bug without a house full of chairs. I remember seeing a really cool, modern dollhouse in the old Flax catalog several years ago that these would be great in. If only I could remember what it was called…Oh well. Baby brain, you defy me.
Enjoy the new goodies! What a fun collection.
Yeah for the awesome doll house for Eleanor someday! I love dollhouses, and it’s one of my life goals to design/build one.
Oh gosh, we share a similar obsession! I have that blue Paton mini, too…and the LCM. Aren’t these the greatest and for only $25! You just can’t beat it. Couldn’t resist sending you a link to some of my collection:
http://highglossblue.blogspot.com/2009/09/hot-or-not.html
Those are amazing! Thanks for sharing them.
Brandon’ such a wonderful gift-giver! The chairs are so very adorable!
Wow, these are adorable! What a sweet gift. :)
Those are such a clever idea. I wonder if they make other iconic furniture as well?
Oh my goodness!!! So adorable! Hope you had a great b-day!
Well…HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
She is going to have an amazing dollhouse that she doesn’t realize is amazing until she’s 22. But that’s okay. She’s lucky to have such a rad mom.
And Happy Birthday!!!
I LOVE Vitra miniatures. I have a Barcelona chair myself. I’m expecting Eleanor’s dollhouse will look more modernist 1960′s bungalow than Barbie’s playhouse :)
Your site is interesting. Almost every blog entry is about your recent purchases/gifts. There are countless times you have mentioned/referenced your EAMES chair… we all got the message loud and clear… you are now the owner of an EAMES chair. Materialism has you in its tight grip!
I am glad I am not the only person who noticed. Materialism photographed and publically displayed for the oohs and aahs of sheep-like followers. How vain.
YOu must be unfamilar with design/decorating magazines, books and blogs.
The blog is all about home design/decorating.
And Nicole is decorating her home, so the point is that she is buying things, and on the blog shares her design and ideas and give us her resources.
Yikes, I really don’t get some people. This is a personal blog, don’t read if you don’t like it. Everyone buys things, we just get to see her cute take on things. And it was her BIRTHDAY present she was letting us enjoy, lighten up!
Cutest gift ever!
lucky you and lucky eleanor! i wish my little girl had chairs that cool for her dollhouse!
You can buy them in Japan for about $5 each (they are Y505) however they come in a box and its a surprise as to which chair you get, which is a common thing in Japan. Anyway I wanted a particular one, so the shop owner got out scales and weighed the chair I wanted and the all boxes until we got what was hopefully the correct weight, I paid for it, slowly opened the box and it was right! So lucky. The shop owner was so sweet to do that for me.
Those are adorable. I have seen those before and have been super tempted — but I’m just afraid of all the dust they’ll collect!
I have the “BARCELONA CHAIR BY MIES VAN DER ROHE” and it is where my cellphone sits. That way I always remember where I set it. Silly, I know, but it works for me. Happy Birthday!!!
So cute — and they would be so amazing in a dollhouse! I had a Victorian style dollhouse my mom made for me when I was 6 and I love it to death (fairly literally…it is, alas, pretty beat up these days).
I have these too! They are ADORABLE! I bought some of those cube wall shelves and made a formation with them on the wall so they are like little rooms for the chairs…I even used sample FLOR tiles as area rugs! My house is tiny and so is my furniture budget, but with these mini chairs I can have them all and have room for them all!!!!
just adorable! What a good husband you have. I have to add these to my Christmas list.
These little chairs are the most adorable thing ever! What a wonderful gift. :D
I have a few of those, they are so much fun!
Holy cow! Those are just way too cute. Lucky you :) Brandon is awesome – perhaps my guy should study these posts for tips – lol!
aww those little chairs are fantastic! what a great gift! xo
We sell these in the shop I work in, and they are truly awesome and adorable in person :)
Where did you get these? I see readers have left comments saying they cost only $5 (from Japan) or $25. Everything I find online is the real thing from Vitra and they are are like $200 a piece! I am dying to know where you can find them at a reasonable price!!!! Thanks!
Those are so cute!
Soooo cute! =)
You have a lot of money for your birthday presents. I must say.
*envious* (maybe our daughter will also need a cool dollhouse soon)
OMG, how cute are these!?!
How precious! I love them all!
they are just TOO cute for words! Who doesn’t need a chair or two? =)
I see many of these mid-century mod chair minis sold new on eBay — pretty good prices as I recall.
Ahh. Just remembered what the dollhouse was. It was the Bozart Kaleidoscope House. It would be so much fun to fill it with mini mc chairs. :)
http://www.thisnext.com/item/BA545221/Kaleidoscope-House-Modern
Wow! They’re super cute, how fun!!
Absolutely adorable. I had seen someone’s miniature chair collection on Antique Roadshow once and I’ve never forgotten it. I think at one time the MOMA carried replicas.
Here is a link for all this cool mid century designer dollhouse furniture!
Fabulous!
http://www.etradersplace.com/osc/dollhouse-miniatures-designer-chair-c-3_15.html
So cute! Happy Belated Birthday!
I want to gobble those up.
I’m obsessed with miniatures! These are awesome. The Chelsea flea market here in Manhattan is a great place to rummage for this sort of stuff.
Happy Birthday – what a thoughtful gift!
i’ve been dying for these for a while, but alas, my husband just doesn’t get it. way to go brandon!
JUST $25, FREE SHIPPING.
Ok after seeing that I clearly am not the only person obsessed with these miniature chairs I just imported 20 of these guys and am selling them here:
http://stores.shop.ebay.com/highglossblue-gifts-for-designers__W0QQ_armrsZ1
COME VISIT and we’ll have have mini chairs!
OMG those chairs are sooooooooo cute!! i make miniature food so this really hits home for me :D If Eleanor ever needs some mini cakes for her dollhouse I got her back lol. ;)
happy belated bday!
I love the mini Paton chair. Actually I love all Paton chairs but I have room in my house for the mini one.
Nicole, have you seen the Jonathan Adler-inspired dollhouse on flickr? It’s crazy good!
http://blog.designpublic.com/2009/08/21/flickr-faves-on-fridays-16/
Your husband is a great gift giver! I had this boyfriend whose mom collected Madame Alexander dolls, and I said I liked them to be polite, and thus, for every occasion after that he gave me one. Needless to say, the relationship didn’t work out ;) (nothing against the dolls, they just aren’t me; I’d much rather have your chairs!).