As a young girl I was a huge and I do mean HUGE Barbie fanatic! I would spend hours upon hours "setting the scene" for the Barbie play I was going to act out. In fact, the setting up was my favorite part...I would lay out the Barbie village and decorate Barbie's Dream Home and plan out her wardrobe according the the imaginary play that I had created. I was in heaven! I was fortunate to inherit lots of Barbie furniture and clothes from older cousins and family friends so my entire basement was a Barbie Wonderland.
When my parents moved from Atlanta to Beaufort, they brought several boxes of my old Barbie stuff with them (God bless those pack rats!). Recently I spent a weekend at their house and I relished going through all the old 80's Barbie fashions and 70's furniture (remember the blow-up stuff?). It is unreal the amount of joy those little plastic dolls gave me the first decade of my life.
One of the fantastic discoveries I made in the old boxes were some bright yellow "S" chairs. I was not alive during the chairs' prime but have since discovered them in many of my favorite design magazines. The "S" chair was invented by Verner Panton in 1960 and is the very first single-form injection-moulded plastic chair ever made. Also known as the "stacking chair," these were his most mass-produced and well-known product.
~Images: 1) Traditional Home 2) Rashida Jones Home in Domino Feb 2008 3) Domino March 2008
