I've never been a fan of gray, but Stanley Tucci might just have changed my mind with an Instagram post featuring a gray lounge chair and coordinating footstool.
The piece in question, seen in his living room, is the Womb Chair (available at 1stDibs), an icon of mid-century modernism designed by Eero Saarinen in 1948. Eero created the chair at the request of Florence Knoll, who famously asked for a chair that was 'like a basket full of pillows, something I could really curl up in.' To achieve its organic, enveloping shape, he broke away from traditional 'overstuffed' furniture construction, pioneering the use of a molded fiberglass shell – a technique borrowed from New Jersey shipbuilders – to create a 'womb-like' sense of security.
