Yep, its a chair.
These chairs from the Fernando and Humberto Campana have been around for a few years, but we've always had an.. er, soft spot for them. Maybe its because we've had piles of stuffed animals on our chairs for years anyway. In any event, if you've never seen them, we wanted to share...
The Campana Brothers' banquet chairs are available in the "extreme seating" section of the Moss web site. These chairs are some of the most whimsical among their spirited line of furniture which uses unexpected combinations of found materials such as rubber hose, tissue paper, string and furry animals. Each chair is handmade especially for Moss and is a signed, limited edition of 25 or 35 each-- they've got pandas, teddy bears, alligators, sharks or one with a big jumbled mix.
In all of their work, we love the Campana Brothers zest for life, their use of ordinary objects and their ability to take risks in design. That, and their furniture, while there's no way we could afford it, makes us smile.
Fernando and Humberto Campana's web site
-Jeanine
© 2009 Apartment Therapy
It looks like someone threw up a bunch of stuffed animals. Terrible.
view LittleRock's profile
...wow.
view closertotheocean's profile
They're entertaining to look at, even though I don't see anyone buying them. I think I like the pandas the most...
view ChristopherB's profile
Reminds me of those '80s net/hammock things people hung in a corner of a room and filled with stuffed animals. They always got really dusty...icky.
view EricaHT's profile
how much are these things? probably $1000 bucks and i'd vomit all over it if i paid that much for something so ridiculous
view LittleRock's profile
Um, no. My chairs sort of look like this anyway after a particularly busy play date. : ) Just not for me.
view javagrrrl's profile
Uh, despite keeping a couple of stuffed animals around myself -- lizards and dragons -- I must say these designs give me paws, uh, pause. I hope the price point is suitable for a child's room.
view JonathanB's profile
Whenever something like this gets posted I check the calendar to see if it's April Fools' Day. Some may think it's art but I think it's just silly and a put down to consumers in general.
view jendavid99's profile
their favela chair is cooler. i don't know how comfortable it is though.
http://www.mossonline.com/product-exec/product_id/31681/category_id/36
view shoepins's profile
"Price upon request" usually means "if ya gotta ask..." What do these things run? I sure would like the gator one.
Go Gators!
view quiltmaster's profile
Dudes, you already posted this. I QUIT!
view little ribbons's profile
little ribbons is right
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/slinks/slinksn-slingks-surreptitious-web-links-to-other-good-sites-024659
view MeWindow's profile
Don't bother to post this one agin---thanks.
view poptart's profile
I mean....clearly this isn't a new post because there are comments from the 21st. It was horrible the first time, and it's just as bad the second time around. Stop it, for the love of good design.
view atlantadesigner's profile
Bad enough the first time...
...so can we stop with the stupid-crap posts, already?
view bepsf's profile
no way, I LOVE the alligator and shark ones. :-)
view *heather leaf*'s profile
Those are the fugliest chairs I ever did see!
view jkonopka's profile
They're dumb, and I just saw this here last week.
view visualingual's profile
Even my eight-year-old thought it was tacky.
view Kimber's profile
I like 'em!
view charlenemcbride's profile
I would buy one of these in a heartbeat.
Assuming of course that I was tripped out on acid or some comparable hallucinogen.
view lightspeed's profile
The gator chair is frightening. The rest are just appalling.
view madampince's profile
I would love it and pet it and call it Georges.
view neutopian's profile
My four dogs will destroy it in a day if I bring one of these home.
Can't this be re-created by just hot-glue a whole bunch of cheap IKEA stuffed animals to a wire-frame chair?
view spiffy's profile
creepy, especially the stuffed panda, kind of looks like a dead panda collection.
view TheoJ's profile
It looks like a teddy bear massacre.
view Griffin's profile
i have that stuffed gator. i'm pet sitting it for my brother-in-law.
view Pistachio's profile
I first saw these in Vogue I think - They look so comfy! I need the alligator one to match my tattoo!
view Keyse's profile
This was already a post and it wasn't worthy the 1st time but some dumbass is buying it so that's why we're looking at it.
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