December 17, 2020 –
A piece of furniture for Christmas shouldn’t be an extraordinary gift idea – unless it’s a cinema chair.
They’re soft, cozy, and iconic. For some, decommissioned cinema seats are also an ideal Christmas present: “You can’t get these things at the discounter,” says cinema operator Meinolf Thies, who runs movie theaters with his wife in Osnabrück and other cities. The decommissioned armchairs come from a recently renovated cinema in Bergen on the Baltic island of Rügen.
There are armchairs in Osnabrück
Because the demand for hundreds of decommissioned cinema seats on Rügen was also low due to the corona, the cinema operators use the transport capacities of the craftsmen involved in the renovation. A truck with cinema seats went to the Lower Rhine. Because the counter maker came from Osnabrück, 126 cinema seats came to the university town in Lower Saxony, Thies explains.
Last year Thies already sold some of the disused cinema seats after a renovation in Osnabrück, and with great success: “The city is characterized by students and such a thing is a nice Christmas present among students.”
A good half of the armchairs have already been sold. “We’ll also get the blue ones away,” Thies is sure. But it will probably only continue in January – the renewed lockdown does not allow customers to come into the foyer, choose their chairs and load them.
(dpa)
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