For Sale: Set of 4 MidCentury Kessler Industries Chairs in Red Vinyl
Have you ever made an impulse purchase" Sure you have! I mean, I do it all the time. In fact, I did it just a few months ago with these chairs. I was out to lunch, and we came across a store that I had never seen before. They were hardly ever open during hours I could shop, but on this particular day a man stood in the doorway and things were being carried out. I asked if they were open, he said no, but he told me that I could look around.
I spotted these awesome chairs, that have the most beautiful cast aluminum cabriole legs on the front with a rose and leaf detail. I thought they'd be perfect in my dining room, reupholstered in a linen, or maybe even a wild animal print velvet, like the Scalamandre Leopardo that I have on the sofa. But when I got them home, they didn't work. And I couldn't return them. I thought I could take the highly ornamental legs off of the chairs and build benches, but I just don't have the place for a bench.
They were made in the 70's by Kessler Industries out of El Paso, Texas. Kessler Industries did a ton of stamped aluminum furniture back then, including this Hollywood Regency version - numbered 6326.
These chairs can be found on the internet places like first dibs, where this pair is $950 PLUS $300 shipping:
They're boudoir chairs, which is why the didn't work for me as dining room chairs. They're pretty petite in size, but they'd be absolutely gorgeous in a house where you had room to have occasional chairs dotting a hallwa...
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