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The Thonet obsession continues...

While waiting for the paint to dry I hit the internet and stumbled across Suzy Hoodless, onetime Wallpaper* mag staffer and now an interiors guru with her fingers in quite a few pots (check out her Osborne & Little wallpaper line). Anyhoo, I was happy to discover that she appears to be as obsessed as I am with Thonet chairs. Take a boo below at a couple of her spaces, both with the chairs in question - La-di-da, don't they look lovely? My mismatched (and rather motley) collection of vintage Thonet-ish dining chairs are destined to be sprayed out in a crisp white sometime soon, that is, if the sprayer guy ever comes back off vacation and answers his phone...