I’m fully aware it’s December, but as I was out in the sticks for a week I completely forgot to blog about a relatively exciting and well-designed chair, so here goes:

I’m not entirely sure if this falls into the ‘chair’ category, but it would feel somewhat wrong not to write about this on blogger at some point or another. Gitta Gschwendtner ‘s Chair Bench can now be seen in the recently opened Furniture Gallery at the V&A. Amongst numerous other beautifully crafted pieces in this amazing space, this  mismatched and intricately carved ash is an item of sheer beauty.

Okay, so I knew I would write about the furniture gallery this month- in the last few years of visiting the V&A and finding out they were planning a gallery totally devoted to furniture, I was a little bit hooked. What’s even more impressive is knowing that literally half the space is devoted to chairs. From Eileen Gray to that guy who designed the inflatable chair and everything in between , it has everything a furniture geek could wish for. There’s even a sneaky little IKEA bookcase tucked away into a corner!

Awash with an endless supply of chairs, it was a little difficult to decide which one is possibly the most covetable. So, rather than having to make a painstaking decision between the Thonet and the Frank Lloyd Wright, it seems that the only option is to go with something that incorporates them both, in a rather contemporary chic way.

I don’t think I need to say anymore, it’s pretty astounding enough really.