Here's the summer, at last!
After the long wait we can enjoy the warmth and relax lying down; at the seaside, in the mountains, by a lake or in the countryside, everyone wants to rest under the hot sun rays. I was just lying on the beach, when I smiled watching two ladies fighting for a deckchair (“I arrived first”, “I had put my towel on it...”).
Even if I love the contact with the sand, I have to admit that the interest for deckchairs is very high!
First of all, where does the deckchair originate from? If we want to dig in the past we have to go very far because deckchairs dating back to the Bronze Age and others from Ancient Egypt have been found (but I don't think they were used for suntanning).
At present, on the contrary, deckchairs are the symbols of summer resorts, vacations and historical movies!
Definitely worth remembering are the Titanic chairs, a symbol of what life was like on board of a transatlantic liner! From the famous shipwreck a few have been recovered and will be auctioned on the hundredth anniversary, and the starting bid will be 125.000 pounds!
This symbology is so deeply rooted that deckchairs were chosen as the image of the towns of Weymouth and Portland, venues for the water sports during the London Olympics in2012; to welcome visitors and sports fans, hundreds of chairs painted and interpreted by artists.
If you feel fascinated by the classical deckchairs, but with a touch of fantasy, you can personalize them on the website http://www.bagsoflove.co.uk
http://www.deckchairs.co.uk
If you are thrifty or very creative, on the site Dumpaday.com you can find a deckchair made with old pallets!
if for you deckchair means water, here's your ideal chair; you'll feel like diving all the time in a white sea! www.yankodesign.com
For those that have no garden, but anyway want to feel in contact with the lawn, the chair proposed by the Chinese site 1984 is a good compromise!
Original indeed !! Http://since1984.cn
The most comfortable of all? Of course a cloud; “cloud sofa” is a cloud floating in the air thanks to a system of magnets, great idea studied by the Chinese designes David Koo and Zheng Yawei.
Http://kootouch.blogspot.it
The realization of the cloud/chair might make me decide to leave the sand for a deckchair; what a pity at the moment it is just a project!
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