Hey /diy/, I saw this chair in a store the other day. I wanted

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>>1032497
It might be easier to just buy a second hand leather armchair and then "fit" the metal to it rather than try to build one from scratch.

BTW $600 is actually pretty cheap for a designer piece of furniture, unlike Ikea shit you won't see much devaluation on it after you buy it, and years to come it might even go up in price if it's a limited run!

>>1032497
600 is a really good deal for that actually

>>1032497
He could ask $2000 or more for that chair easily

I bought that chair a year ago. it was not 600 dollars.

Im suspecting, this is one of those 'everything looks expensive desigenr hand-made, but is actually mass-produced China/Korea/etc shit' furniture chains. I dont think would survive too much close inspection, other side, if you have no experience/tools/never built anything? $600 wil look very cheap indeed, by the time you have mustered the skills and materials to build anything near remotely resembling that.

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Turns out the chair is $1500-3000 (https://www.restorationhardware.com/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod60107).

It only further reinforces my point. Anyone have any ideas on what to do?

>>1032497
> I was thinking that i'd make a pine and plywood frame and then use thin aluminum for the outside, and just use faux leather/pleather for the seat.

Making a frame and covering outside with aluminium should be raltively easy, but I doubt you can upholster it yourself if you have no expirience.

>>1032579
person that bought it a year ago here.

the quality is excellent and leather work is very professionally done. just buying the materials is easily half of what you'll buy it for completed.

basically just buy it if you want it, you wont regret it. if you're on here asking how to make it, you're doomed. don't even waste your time or money.

Learn to upholster in leather.

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Jesus fuck all of you go kill yourselves. I know there are threads on selling dumb ugly shit to hipsters, but the people who buy that dumb ugly shit are not welcome here.

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>>1032497
Go find an auto breakers anon, you will be looking for either an old jag or a merc with clean leather seats, use the front seat to form the back and seat of the armchair, now build your frame around that and cover the frame in your metal, use leather salvaged from the other seats to cover the trim pieces like the arms.

Picture mildly related.

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>>1032648
a slightly better representation.

>>1032639
>opinions

>>1032648
That's a fucking genius idea. Thank you!

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>>1032749
Feel free to praise me more senpai

>>1032648
>Go find an auto breakers anon, you will be looking for either an old jag or a merc with clean leather seats,
yeah, in the year 19-fucking-76, maybe..

>>1032796
and stop (You) begging, its unseemly.

If you find a leather seat that's all fucked up, look up leather seat restoration kits. They'll leave it looking pretty good. Or you could have them reupholstered.

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>>1032498
That thing looked a lot better in the thumbnails.

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>>1032878
if you consider a ships WC - >>1032498 -
'better', then yeah. Probably only truly appreciated irl tho. I mean, who wouldnt want their entire living room hugged in aluminum accented with exposed steel screws?

>>1032917
Oh that is hideous.
Why isn't the metal work one nice smooth sheet?

>>1032648
Front seats will be worn out. Look for rear 2+2 seats those never get used

>>1032936
Because it's a piece of shit with improperly done metalwork. Hipsters should buy many of them.

>>1032938
This.

I bolted a car seat to an old power recliner base and like it. No home chair has the engineering and durability of a car seat.

>>1032945
the one i own has way better metal work than the one pictured. maybe op found it at a outlet store and thats why it's 600usd as he claims.

i'm not a hipster at all. i thought it was beautiful in person, i bought it with cash and put it in the den in my house that i own in full. how's your moms basement treating you?