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patsypratt


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I'm not sure if the original series captain's chair is the most captivating piece of furniture ever built, or if I just think so because I drank in the sight of it at such a young age. I have a similar attachment to the 1966 Batmobile. It just looks incredibly good to me.

Anyway, every swivel chair I ever had will stop turning wherever it wants, but Kirk's chair has some kind of righting mechanism that sends it back to facing forward when you let go of it. That's interesting. Is that a common thing everybody knows about but me? Or was it a custom build, I wonder.

The only time the chair did not come to rest facing forward was in "The Menagerie Part I," and I assume the director wanted to highlight Kirk's absence by putting his chair askew, to where it faced the camera. It claimed attention that way. It said "Hey, look, I'm empty." I imagine you could do that by picking up the whole chair and setting it back down in its base at the turned angle.

Is anybody else here crazy about this chair?



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IRL, the only places that come to mind for "self-fronting" chairs are college lecture halls and Navy mess halls, where the chair seat is mounted to some unmovable base and the swivel is to facilitate the sitting-down process. I've never met an individual chair that had that feature.

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That Captain's Chair really is iconic—something about that auto-centering feature just gives it that commanding presence. Well, I’ve always been fascinated by swivel chairs with a self-righting mechanism, too. They’re actually not super common, but you can find some mid-century models with similar mechanics if you dig around.
If you’re still on the hunt for cool pieces that would fit the vibe of a captain’s chair, this link might have some options worth checking out.



-- Edited by josaphsamuel on Thursday 17th of October 2024 12:01:05 PM

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