Emergency Snake Market Observer: Best of the best from Chairish's Presidents' Day sale that ends today

100 or so chairs, tables, sofas, lamps at 20% off with decent or free shipping

Happy February 21 (William Petersen from Manhunter’s birthday)…

There’s a Chairish sale on now that ends today and so I took a page out of

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‘s Magasin newsletter (one of my favs) and combed through the whole shit… of items under $3 large. So scroll down for a number of lamps, chairs, sofas, side tables, kitchen tables… lots of items, 50+ in all.

Quite a few deals, some very good items. A small note: I don’t publish Chairish often on Snake as LA’s selection is more wild and narrative. But I use Chairish for my own consulting work and find there is… a wealth of stuff. Best thing is you can buy right away. And the price is the price. The economics shake out here like this: there’s a premium for the convenience and the seller’s work. (On auction sites, there’s a premium for the novelty; and because items are novel they can go below market for a very smart consumer.) And so we come at a perfect situation: during a sale, this premium is lowered and sometimes slashed. Items can be bought for a fine price. I’d classify most everything here, broken up into tables, chairs, sofas, lighting, and cream of the crop, as fine purchases you can get right away and which are like, no-brainer decisions. Either dirt cheap or just a very very fair price for a great piece of furniture now.

Sale ends TONIGHT. So pull the trigger today if you want something. If you buy something, let me know. Let the seller know too, let whoever is running Chairish know as well thanks…

Chairs:

• Italian accent chair, $116, LA (pretty 99% sure this is a Magistretti for De Padova. Great deal if so)

• Ponti ladder back rope chair, $225, Pa. (humble even by Ponti’s standards)

• Kinsman for Bieffeplast pair chairs, $262, near NY (you know ‘em; deal)

• Tanigawa “Nardis” stool for Fasem, $287, Chi. (never seen this before; great)

• Pair Calligaris stools, Pa., $396 (will do in a pinch)

• Pair Saporiti accent chairs, Miami, $446 (in Miami colors; very lively)

• Pair white Breuer Cesca chairs, maybe 70s?, Ct., $480 (no brainer here)

• No-name allegedly Italian leather recliner, $600, Philly (basic and simple)

• Chrome Baughman-style cantilevered tan armchairs, $508, Pa. (very capable)

• Hershberger for Pace recliner/ottoman, $2,240, NYC (not the best price or chair but a huge markdown and nearly worth it if you’re in a pinch)

• A simple beautiful wood (walnut or cherry IDK) folding chair, $240, Seattle (just great)

Tables:

• Pace Collection fat brass end table, Az., $224 (great in a pinch)

• Brass tray Venetian table, $716, Fl. (pictured) this thing is ape-crap and I love it

• Smoked chrome Allegri Aredamenti coffee table, Ct., $784 (pricy but very very good)

• Magistretti for Cattelan Travertine brass side table, $1087, S.C. (pricy but elegant)

• Scarpa Soriana Cassina Ottoman, Pa., $1,596 (insane these run this much but a very good Levantine table if you wanna BMF)

Miscellany:

• Red Bertoncello piggy bank, $44, Wisc (a cutie)

• Chinese opium bed fragment, $400, NYC (I have 7 of these)

Sofas:

• No-name velvet/chrome lounger, $1,000, Fl. (definitely the first… simple velvet piece I have seen. A pleasant surprise)

• Wormley for Dunbar cool pattern platform loveseat, Oh., $1,760 (don’t reupholster this IMO; Wormley and Dunbar are both amazing names)

• Brian Kane for Metropolitan chrome/tube sofa set, $2,280, Fl. (Like a Chiclet meets an HM airport chair. Not bad)

• Parsons-style Baughman-ripoff sofa with insane upholstery, Philly, $2,437 (perfect upholstery but needs an accent; like black legs or something)

• Rattan chaise lounge in style of Crespi, Philly, $2,437 (huge discount; a bit too phallic but a cool modern design for rattan)

• Marge Carson rosewood daybed (old school), Oh., $3,040 (Marge Carson another amazing name; beautiful frame here, one of the best grandma-adjacent pieces I’ve seen)

• ‘60s Scandi folding sofa bed, NC, $3,196 (way too expensive but worth gaping at; a real great upholstery job here, looks futuristic)

Lighting:

• 70s yellow gooseneck student desk lamp, Pa., $71 (your basic piece-of-shit non-ass lamp for under $100)

• Italian periscope lamp, $175, Upstate (very decent)

• Sonneman Graves/Colombo-style desk lamp, $156, NYC (severe classic)

• Same lamp, $100 more and in Fl.

• Danish-style enameled white pendant light, $156, NYC (real good looking)

• MCM square donut base lamp, near DC, $210 (almost good)

• Deco chrome submarine-style lamp, $236, NYC (steam)

• Sonneman style yellow eyeball table lamp, $236, NYC (great right now)

• Haussmann for Swiss Lamps Intl table lamp, $321, Miami (decent)

• Bindman extendo-arm gold desk lamp, $341, Miami

• Chrome lightolier chandelier, $380, NYC

• Brass eyeball lamp, ‘70s, $420, Chi

• Plastic pop-art giant lightbulb lamp, $396, NYC (pictured) This is the best lamp; one of the best lamps ever; my second-favorite lamp, I think, if we are talking rankings, behind the one that’s on the ground and looks like a snake/coil. I had this thing (or very similar) in my apartment for a long, long time; bought it right when I moved, and it never had a stable place in the apartment and would be moved around all over depending what my lighting and aesthetic needs were at the time:

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• Anyways a fair price. The second photo I believe was taken after my phone fell into a gym locker and I had to wait until the gym closed until they could cut the lock. I rewarded myself with poisonous fried chicken after. It has literally been 9 years since Popeye’s featured red stick chicken. Every time I posted the light bulb lamp on my Instagram someone would message me about how funny the lamp was. Anyways it broke while I was cleaning maybe three, four years ago. I had been over it for a while. But doing the math, I replaced it with four other lamps. I like how it looks now still, more or less, but it is to me mostly a reminder of how personal furniture can be. This was probably the first beautiful thing I hunted down, found and took a chance on and bought. I will never forget it. Seller has a number of lighting options above as well as these cool Danish bookends, a chrome Thermos (???) decanter, an Deco tricycle, nice smalls, this straight up perfect pitcher for $80, ripoff Wendell Castle chair, a negligee chest

Severe deals for paying subscribers across all areas:

Below are 11 of the best of the best items listed on Chairish, defined as most underpriced relative to their market price, or biggest one-time sales slash price. Along with sellers’ other items. I would classify them as good, good, good pieces of furniture at a normal human being prices. Not industry prices but priced for normal people with jobs. At best, I would buy this stuff if I had the room. at worst, I would seriously mull it over. I am sure some of these will work for anyone