Choosing chairs for your garden, a couple of things to include. A chair back tall enough to lean the head back to rest or fall asleep. And, arms.
Lovely chairs, below, but after-dinner-conversation will flow longer, enrich & be funnier, sitting in the chairs, above. Wine will taste better too.
Table/chairs, top pic, large enough, perhaps conversation splits into 2 groups, and a pair of chairs are pulled away and closer to each other.
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When clients have a party I always have the same request, Please take pics of your furniture afterward. I learn most, and adore learning daily, from gardens living/leveraging lives.
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Cote de Texas recently wrote about John Saladino, here, and his various homes thru the years. A rich article. Almost a design course. And, where both pictures were found.
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Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
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YOU have just reminded me to go back and READ THAT!!!I flagged it when I had more time...........her POSTS Are TOO long for me!But I do ADORE THIS MAN SALADINO!!!!The MONTECITO HOUSE was THE BEST in my opinion then again I haven't seen the others!
How are you doing?Everything un-packed?Cats settled in................
HURRY UP with some more photos!!!
XOXOOX
Tara! You are so right!
Jphn is a friend and neighbor here! That is a "master's degree" in decorating! (Joni's post)! I am delivering it to John tomorrow!) I noted the pieces he has had his entire life; that is what makes his house a "tapestry " of his life!
Certain small things he has kept with him is what has made his houses homes....and beautiful and meaningful!!
Tomorrow I am delivering to his house! (he won't do email......and won't go online)! so he will get a real present!
And a treat!!!
XXOO
Penny
To my mind, chairs HAVE to have arms or fatigue quickly overtakes. And, it's nice to have chairs in varying sizes and heights. My shorter height is terribly uncomfortable in a chair made for a 6 foot man and vice versa.
I do like the lantern in the first photo.
Interesting to compare the top photo, where the chairs are new and the garden is more formal, with the second photo where the chairs have weathered, the setting is more sheltered and the hanging lamp has disappeared.
Yes, must be tall enough to lean back in!
My grandpa and all my uncles would drag a kitchen chair outside and lean it up against the porch wall or else a shade tree out in the yard. Always leaned back on two legs.
Perhaps they were too poor to have lawn chairs? If they could have - I bet they would have bought high-back ones like these!
Sorry about P. :(
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