Some days you are a fan of muted neutrals. Others, you want bright, vibrant colors. When decorating, how do you decide which one wins, especially with furniture purchases? Designer Ditte Maigaard suggests that you don't have to choose. You can indeed have it all with the Split Personality Sofa.
"Developed from from a view of two opposite personalities who – because of their differences – supplement each other and enables many different uses," Ditte Maigaard's Split Personality Sofa is designed to allow both to coexist in one couch.
Meant to be used in the middle of the room, it is almost like furniture's classier equivalent to those infamous (and unfortunate) business in the front, party in the back hair cuts. Okay, maybe it's more along the lines of Christian Louboutin's classic black pump with a surprising red lacquered sole. Regardless, it's an interesting way to incorporate unexpected details into something as predictable as a sofa.
For more images and details, visit Contemporist: The Split Personality Sofa.
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Great idea, but it's still an unfortunate looking sofa and not comfy at all. For the undecided, why not just stick to a nice looking sofa, and put colorful pillows or throws on it when you're feeling cheery.
That may be the most hideous sofa I've ever seen.
Hmm... I want to like this, but I don't. Maybe its the "fan" that's turning me off? The colors on the back are fun, but it looks so uncomfortable and awkward! :(
No need to be indecisive, because it's the most revolting piece of furniture I've ever seen in my life.
Even if that style were popular today, it wouldn't be popular tomorrow, and would have zero interest in the $10,000 pricetag that would likely be associated with something like that.
This looks like some undergraduate design student's senior project.
yup gotta agree-its hideous
If you like the look of that sofa, you need to go see a shrink..quick!
Not a fan. Looks like a homemaker got a bit tipsy and went to town on the back with fabric scraps and paint. The shape of the seat back is fugly too.
Does that thing come with an air-sick bag?
I love it, well the gray part actually. And no, I don't need to see a shrink. But darcitananda, how do you know it's not comfortable, have you sat on it? Where? I'd want to test it out.
I'm sorry, but that is HIDEOUS!
wow.... that thing is horrendous!
and doesn't IKEA have a chair where you can flip the pillows to show different patterns for when you want a different look? Better idea and execution than this "artsy" piece of... can you call it furniture?
Ick.
(The colorful part seems really haphazard, very sloppy, to me.)
The WORST piece of furniture I've seen in a long time. I can only assume it was posted to get a reaction.
Well, here I go,against the grain again,,,I think that couch is the coolest I've ever seen. It's totally outside the box! And isn't that the idea?
And I'll take it in red,please!
I can't imagine those fan things aging well. . . they'd get bumped chewed torn, etc.
Oh yeah, and they're kinda ugly too.