Forecasting being the flip side of collective consciousness of what people want and myself being a people, I forecast the following: an outdoor chair of the good quality durable plastic in a matte black that does not fade in the sun, the seat 25 inches wide instead of the usual 20 inches, the high back easily lowered or raised while a people is seated by tugging up on the armrest and sliding them along into slots, the back having positions from upright to horizontal.
I have done some research and such a chair does not seem to presently exist. Not at that width. Not one that will recline to completely horizontal.
Such a chair will retain the portability of a chair but, by the addition of a simple plastic stool (square with rounded edges which can also double as a table) become a chaise longue * on which a people can take a nice nap, or meditate with spine straight, or stare directly up at the sky.
Two small changes – width and degree of reclination – voila and eureka!
I want it right now – the weekend forecast (weather!) is for glorious live outdoors temperature and conditions. But I suspect forecasting is a patient sort of endeavour and I will have to wait until designers and manufacturers and distributors and stores catch up with the collective consciousness.
* even the spell check thinks chaise longue is wrong! But that dear man Bill Bryson (who makes me smile just to think of him: his writing has me laughing out loud) put me right to the wrongness of chaise lounge (hah – spell check thinks that is just fine) – it is chaise longue and means, of course, in French, long chair. It is in his book The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.