Barcelona chair design; looking for suggestions

Hey Loyd
I think the legs need to be much thicker than the photo if made from wood . Maybe a very dense wood like epi
would do the job. as for the cushions you might be able to find a used chair and reupholster it’s cushions unless this will be a customers chair,
.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

I would agree with Jim…

I would suggest any wood that is used in bow making like ash, yew or hickory (there are many more too – Osage Orange…etc….etc.). I would suggest you use the techniques that they use to insure that the chair can spring back to it original shape once the load is removed….(like using high tech polymers imbedded between the woods…).

Cushions would be the easiest of the parts as you can buy a piece of cheap foam (make it into the shape you want) and have a decent seamstress sew you up a cover….

-- Woodworking.....My small slice of heaven!

Hey Lloyd. You fell in love with the right chair, we have 4 of them in our living room and den area. I’d have to say, if you can pull this off via wood, please let us know. You could also provide this to many Barcelona Chair reproduction companies like Paradigm Gallery (www.pgmod.com), which is where we got ours. They also sell cushions separately in various types of leather, including standard aniline, semi-aniline, and full aniline. Good luck and keep us posted.

The Barcelona chair is a classic.

As far as interpreting it in wood, check out the Vita chair by Thos Moser. It’s a “tribute” to the Barcelona chair.

Also, there’s a young LJ member who did a nice copy of the Thos Moser copy – his project is here.

scottz beat me to it.

http://www.thosmoser.com/product.detail.php?categoryid=&familyid=23&product_id=1322