royalton chair

UGLY duckling it is not; “odd” duckling is perhaps the more appropriate name for Philippe Starck’s Royalton Chair (1991). This is a chair that is composed of both classic lines and unconventional design cues, the strongest of which is its exceptionally wide back; from a frontal view the chair more resembles a one-armed ottoman pushed up against an upholstered wall. Seemingly mismatched pearwood back feet and cast polished aluminum front feet complete this fundamentally unbalanced yet strangely beautiful chair.
$4,227, unicahome.com