Confession time: When I wrote the ultimate IKEA shopping list, the POÄNG chair was mysteriously missing from the bunch. Truthfully, I turned my nose up at this chair for way too long. It was just so quintessentially and so obviously IKEA. But you know what? Every time I see the $100-ish POÄNG in person or in photos, the damn thing always looks amazing. A little history to put everything in perspective: The POÄNG Chair is one of IKEA's longest-running and best-selling designs. It was introduced in 1977 as the POEM (the name changed to POÄNG in 1992) and designed by Noboru Nakamura, a Japanese IKEA designer who was given the task of creating an "armchair for life." Because it has been around such a long while, the iterations you see here (including the matching footstool & of course the rocking chair version) might not be the same exact form you would buy today. But the clean lines, bent frame and gentle rocking motion should all be very familiar as soon as you bring it home and settle in for a sit.
Above: An IKEA POÄNG in a new, orange slipcover from Bemz, just one way to elevate the look. Toni and Patrick's Floridian Flat on Pop Sugar (Image credit: Pop Sugar) POANGs in Grey and Scout's living room (Image credit: Grey and Scout) A contemporary living room from Adrian James Architects on Houzz (Image credit: David Fisher) Kate & Chad's Art-Filled Dwelling (Image credit: Alexis Buryk) A Nursery POANG from The Suburban Urbanist (Image credit: The Suburban Urbanist) A coastal-style home, featured by IKEA Another nursery POANG rocker, from The Clevery Bunny (Image credit: The Clever Bunny) Peek at through a doorway in this Denver home from Lauren Mikus on Houzz (Image credit: Lauren Mikus)POÄNG: Love it or hate it?Read more on PRF Leather & faux leather sofas The price reflects selected options CA, East Palo Alto Most of our products are designed and packaged so that you can take them home yourself.
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5 star81%4 star10%2 star3%1 star6%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsLove the chairGreatEvery person who sits in it .....They are very comfortable and easy to assembleFive StarsFive StarsGreat Poang chair See and discover other items: ikea chair cover, ikea stools, ikea kitchen Go to Fabric ottomansLife has been a little boring around Philadelphia. I mean, sure we have a new house, new car and I’m starting grad school in the fall, but there hasn’t been anything REALLY exciting happening like there was in DC. So I decided to spice things up a little. Because, is life really worth living if you don’t appreciate the thin line between life and death? You guys remember my POANG chair, right? And, as you can tell, it doesn’t really match anything in the living room and now that I think about it, my bear is kind of creepy, too. So my biggest first world problem last week was to find a matching leather chair to balance out the other two leather chairs that we have.
Remember, Russians love leather. Mr. B and I went to IKEA, where we saw that the POANG chair was available in leather. However, it costs $200 and the footstool is another $100. And you know me. There’s no way I’m shelling out $300, especially at IKEA where I expect to have to reassemble the chair at least five times a month using an allen wrench and some of my own minor bones because the screws they include don’t fit by a couple of inches. So you can imagine my excitement when I saw the POANG leather chair PLUS tuffet on Craigslist for $50. The photo looked ok and the ad mentioned that the bottom was a little scuffed up, so I was trying to figure out what the catch was. And then I saw. The chair was for sale in West Philly. Now, some of you well-versed in American pop culture may know that West Philadelphia is where The Fresh Prince was born and raised. Which makes it sound like a friendly middle-class neighborhood. But the reason Will Smith’s mom sent him away from West Philadelphia was because the Philly crime map looks something like this:
Actually, I just realized this makes it look like you should never go into the city of Philadelphia. Which is probably true.Back to my story. West Philly is not the best area to be in at night. Or during the daytime. Granted, UPenn is in West Philly and it’s a really pretty area to walk around in, but that’s like saying that there’s a Green Zone in Baghdad and it’s a really pretty area to walk around in. So,to be safe, I Google-mapped the address I’d be picking up the chair from, and I came up with this street view: Which doesn’t look too bad, right? I mean, kind of sketchy, but not sketchy enough that a girl couldn’t go get a deeply-discounted chair. So I consulted with a safety expert, after I found a couple pictures of the actual house on Flickr, which is where I edited out the link. With that vote of confidence, I emailed the seller and said I’d be picking up the chair. Note that I did this during the daytime (I left work a little early that day, which is why Mr. B couldn’t come along.)
So, here I am, female, young, in a brand-new car, alone, headed to West Philadelphia, which some people who love the area describe asMy street was wonderful. But, a few blocks over, where my cousin lived, there were plenty of boarded up drug houses packed with squatters.” uhhh cuz my cousin got shot there? Good thing I googled this up only after I went. Anyway, so as I drive to the house, the neighborhood gets sketchier and sketchier, people on the street are looking at my car, and soon I’m getting to the point where I’m seriously debating turning around, but I’ve already gone so far, and a $50 chair AND tuffet await me. My Jewish instincts overpower my will to live. I drive up to the house, park across the street, and text the girl, because I’m not sure it’s the right house. Mainly because there is what looks to be a homeless man sitting on the stoop. On another stoop across the street, a man sits and smokes and watches me. I’m sitting in my car, waiting for the girl to text back, feeling like a creep, and also feeling like I probably should relearn self-defense.
She comes out of the house and waves to me, and I feel even more like an asshole for not getting out of the car. She comes up to me and shakes my hand. “Hi, I’m X,” she says, shaking my hand. “And this is Howard.” He smiles a toothless smile at me. She motions me inside. I look back at my car with longing. The chair is exactly as promised, only covered in dust since she is renovating. The row house itself is gorgeous and has so much potential to be fixed up as a historical home, and it’s obvious that the owner has already put a lot of work into making the front beautiful. Unfortunately on the inside it’s 100% falling apart and it’s a good thing I’m not wearing flip-flops because holy tetanus. Unfortunately, the house is located in West Philly and I’m afraid that any moment I’m going to have to call Mr. B and tell him that he either needs a new car or a new wife. So, she helps me take the tuffet and chair out to my car and just as I think she’s standing there to help me load them, she says, “Bye,” and runs back into the house.
So here I am, alone, chair and tuffet out on the street, trying to load them into the car as quickly as possible while the guy on the stoop continues to watch me. Howard seems to have meandered off. I don’t try to position them in the back seat, I don’t try to lay them down in the best possible way, I just stick them in the car and go, go, go. Two minutes out, I realize that I put the chair in in such a way that it’s blocking my entire rear-view mirror, and I not only need to get out of West Philly, but merge lanes on the highway, etc, to get home. Because I am not stopping. I floor it and rely on my vision from my two side mirrors to get to I-76, merge onto that highway, and then get home and take a stiff long drink. Do NOT try ANY of this at home. Unless you are Jewish and want a 71% discount on furniture. But aren’t you dying to know what it looks like? And here’s the entire living room. (Just lie and humor me.) By the way, interesting story about the original POANG, which is now in our bedroom: