The Curious #1983 Chair

This past autumn Royale Wiggin (Thayer Coggin's daughter and current president of the company) took us on a guided tour of Thayer Coggin's warehouses. We came across a frame we had never seen before. Royale had no recollection of the chair. We couldn't find any record of it online or in any of our old books, magazines, or catalogs. With only the chrome frame remaining and no photograph of the original chair, there was no way of knowing what it looked like with its upholstered seat & back.

Three months after our visit, Teresa at Thayer Coggin called us up and told us that Guy Hill had found one and only one photograph of the chair in the deepest recesses of Thayer Coggin's archives. When we received the picture, we were surprised to find out that it had an exaggerated scroll back and seat front that spill out well beyond the chrome frame. It's a hard chair to classify. It has motifs from the 80's art deco revival, while the chrome frame has a vestigial mood of 70's glamour. It looked like a misfit stepping stone into postmodernism. Consistent with Thayer Coggin's method of naming chairs, below the photograph was only a model number: #1983 Lounge Chair.

The chair had apparently been shown at market one year, but subsequently had not been offered in any Thayer Coggin catalog or gone into full production. The small number of frames that had been produced for the High Point Furniture Market sat in the warehouses until present day.

The scroll back seats are currently being built out by the designers at Thayer Coggin. This very rare dead stock chair will soon be offered exclusively at Fresh Kills. Contact us at people@freshkillsflagship.com to preorder or if you'd like to be notified of their upcoming release.

-j

AMBER ALERT

So, yesterday we spent half the day in the shop before we realized something wasn't quite right. The children of the world were missing. They apparently had been kidnapped from outside the shop while we were working late one night. We were so tired that we didn't even notice. We of course fear the worst and know in our heart of hearts that we will probably never see Olana, Keith, and Vivian ever again. If anyone has any information that may lead to their return, we will gladly give you 20% off any custom sofa order and one of these candles we should have never bought. They were last seen wearing nothing.

-j