Gingerbread Eames Chair

Meg and her friends made gingerbread houses and cookies last week. We had some gluten-free gingerbread dough left over, so I decided to make something. I decided to make an Eames molded plywood chair.

I made the seat and the back rest first, and they looked perfect. Then I made the legs. In the process attaching the legs to the seat, there was some major crumbling going on. I made some beefier legs reinforced with foil, but I still didn't know how to attach them.

I tried using Elmer's glue. Big mistake. It turned the whole chair into mush. Here's a picture of what was left after the collapse.



*a strange note on the topic of chairs: We are currently picking out some new chairs for our dining room, so I've had chairs on my mind lately. I dozed off last night and had one of those immediate dreams.

[cue the dream music]

A Bertoia Diamond Chair walks into Albertsons where Meg and I are standing in the self-check-out aisle. The chair has arms and legs like the California Raisins. It walks up near us and sits down in a Nelson Coconut chair. The Bertoia Chair turns to me and says "even I need a comfortable chair to sit in every now and then."

It wasn't really that funny, just odd. What did Meg put in that gingerbread?