design your own life: ludde & vågö

design your own life: ludde & vågö, originally uploaded by wood & wool stool.

It was not easy to get this IKEA PS Vågö chair designed by Thomas Sandell.
A typical case of love at first sight. It's perfect for outdoor use and came in the colors black, white, green & orange.

Unfortunately the easy garden chair disappeared very quickly from the PS collection and I occasionally searched on the web for a secondhand chair.

With spring approaching, I ventured once again an attempt to obtain this classic design. I finally found one and was also fortunate, it was in my favorite color and accompanied by a matching footstool. Yay!

This morning the big package arrived and the plastic seating surface was rather cold when I made a test sit, so I put my sheepskin Ludde on it and enjoyed the new Vågö while reading the newspaper.

Now the seat is moved to the backyard and I look forward to the spring, for it's a perfect chair to 'sit and hook'.

fermobism

a bunch of fermobs, originally uploaded by wood & wool stool.

The first time I saw a Fermob chair was years ago in Paris. In Jardin du Luxembourg I was impressed by these mostly green chairs in the park. The chairs are re-designed by Frederic Sofia and I'm the lucky owner of two pieces. In my garden the Savannah & Willow Green colored Fermob lounge chairs are so pretty. The terrace of Villa Augustus were I work is filled with all kinds of Fermobs and a few weeks ago I visited Stockholm and found a whole bunch of Aubergine colored Fermobs at the terrace of a cafe in Kungsträdgården. I'm generally suffering a kind of Chair Fetish and suppose I'm infected with Fermobism.