Common sofa attachments

RE “When Casting the Couch” [Aug. 11]: To me, my Thayer Coggin couch with chrome on its sides, back and bottom is the defining piece in my living room. It has been reupholstered twice, meaning it’s had three different treatments.

The piece was literally falling apart due to unfortunate sun exposure as late as last year, but I could never find anything as valuable to me or that expresses my own personal love of this early ‘70s styling.

As a matter of fact, I also have two Thayer Coggin small barrel chairs faced in chrome in my living room that are on their second upholstery treatment, chrome on the legs of a light pink ultra-suede complementary sofa opposite the TC piece, and, in my dining room, eight chrome and cane chairs of the era. (They are pulled up to a glass table seating up to 14 that my husband crafted from a bullet-proof window from a local jail.)

As you can see, when I like a style, I won’t let it go out of fashion, no matter how fashions change.

HARRIET MODLER

Pacific Palisades

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Thirty-five years ago my grandmother purchased an orange psychedelic floral couch. In her defense this was shortly before her cataract surgery.

When starting my own household I received many nice castoffs from relatives. I also got that couch. Finding a suitable replacement has been a difficult task occupying years.

My motivation increased when I noticed an almost identical couch on the set of “Napoleon Dynamite.”

Sweet sofa shopping success can be defined as reading “When Casting the Couch” while waiting for delivery of a nice new couch!

K.E. WESTERLING

Riverside

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