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Hot or Not: The Salvador

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Wood, finish, and upholstery are fully customizable, and the price is $3995. This is furniture built to last a lifetime...and beyond...

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Did we mention the sofa is made by Casket Furniture and can be transformed into a casket should that need arise?

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EW!!!!!!!!!!

posted by *heather leaf* on October 6th 2008 at 5:29am
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This thing may last a lifetime, but why would you want it to. It is so ugly!

posted by sar3j on October 6th 2008 at 5:35am
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considering i want to be cremated, this is the last thing i'd want in my apartment! way too morbid. "Ah, yes, let me relax on my corpse container".

posted by *heather leaf* on October 6th 2008 at 5:43am
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it looks like a waiting room bench for a doctors office or restaurant. the kind that doesn't realize how tacky their decor is.

posted by rstrtz on October 6th 2008 at 5:49am
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Wow, why did we waste the space for this post? It's U-G-L-Y!

posted by Z Brownie on October 6th 2008 at 5:53am
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Casket meets tanning bed.

posted by I Love Upstate on October 6th 2008 at 6:09am
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When I first saw the photo, I wondered if they realized how much it looks like a casket.

Do not want.

posted by Aldyth on October 6th 2008 at 6:12am
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I do like the lines, but it kind of has that modern dorm feeling to it.

Now that I know that it is a casket, which explains the price, ew, ew, ew uh ew ew ew!

posted by Jason on October 6th 2008 at 6:14am
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Hideous!!!

posted by suzy8track on October 6th 2008 at 6:24am
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terrible...just terrible.

posted by ZAshtianipour on October 6th 2008 at 6:28am
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It's a horrible couch! But as a casket, it's better looking that most of the gaudy options out there. I'd hope my loved ones were stylish enough to put me in one of these.

posted by tarynevelyn on October 6th 2008 at 6:29am
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Kind of a mod interpretation of a church pew.

posted by Mella DP on October 6th 2008 at 6:34am
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I checked out the site - hilarious! (sort of tacky, but come on!) Coffin coffee tables? Eternaltainment centers? It's nice to know you can pre-arrange these things and use them in the home. Some of the items weren't that conspicuous.

I said I liked the sofa for many of the reasons some people hated it. It does look like it belongs in a public space, not the home. I'm not sure why that's a problem, as if public space doesn't count. A lot of modern designed sofas look like waiting room furniture to me too, it doesn't make them ugly. You want a place to sit that's not a hard wooden bench, I think these are pretty neat.

posted by K T G on October 6th 2008 at 6:48am
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way too much wood. any yes, it looks a bit like a coffin or a tanning bed. and not in a good way.

posted by dM on October 6th 2008 at 8:09am
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Hideousness aside, it also looks really uncomfortable. There's very little padding and I really hate sitting in sofas that don't have real arms.

I wonder how many of those they've actually sold . . . and who bought them . . .

posted by moderndomestic on October 6th 2008 at 8:14am
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I was going to say that it looks too much like a church pew, but then to find out that it converts into a coffin..... Well, all-righty-riddly then.... as a coffin, I could appreciate its simple design, but I don't want MY corpse leaving a large footprint that size. As a couch...phooey.

posted by btoddster on October 6th 2008 at 8:16am
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Ugly, not quite Halloween enough.
Perhaps I'd like it better if it didn't take itself so very seriously.

posted by gordon on October 6th 2008 at 8:17am
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eww... I just envisioned lifting the cushion to stash a magazine or something and a hand reaching out to take it from me.

Me: "Thanks!"
Couch: " 'salright..."

posted by btoddster on October 6th 2008 at 8:19am
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:-D it is silly.

posted by maike on October 6th 2008 at 8:31am
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btoddster, did you see the Bruegel coffee table?

http://www.casketfurniture.com/prod/the_bruegel.html

posted by K T G on October 6th 2008 at 8:34am
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Well, I suppose it could be a nice display coffee table in THIS world...you know, for seashells, or beenie babies, that sort of thing.



~shudder~

posted by btoddster on October 6th 2008 at 8:41am
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I like it, it looks clean and minimalistic, much better than many other designer stuff.

posted by Clap on October 6th 2008 at 8:59am
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ewwww.........can you say "in bad taste"?

posted by rachelrachel on October 6th 2008 at 9:08am
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Hideous.

posted by gryt on October 6th 2008 at 10:03am
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bad looking design to me---

posted by poptart on October 7th 2008 at 6:25am
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