I think it's one of those things that'd be really cool somewhere that's not my home... or if I lived in an ultra-modern house where it'd be seen as ironic rather than faux-opulent. My guess is that the price tag IS opulent, so the joke would be on me.

Well it saves space.

It's a great concept for public spaces, but it's been done before (and better) by others, without those ridiculous images plastered to the walls.

Gross!

I think these are funny enough to be worth it in the right space. I'd consider such an installation a passing amusement, though. And for crying out loud, I'd certainly mount it so the bottom of the legs were on the ground!

conceptionally interesting - horribly done.

Might have been cool if it wasn't just a white box above the chair/table... like, if the chair was painted behind it. Also, the chair part itself is really ugly and just looks super uncomfortable.

At this point, almost anything NOT mid-century modern
is fine with me... ;)
it reminds me of those plastic Barbie cases that had fold out furniture.
I think it's fun, and I agree with ChristoperB--great idea for public spaces.

would be great at a restaurant waiting area. i think they are cool. and i second the remark about anything NOT mid-century modern being a nice change of scenery. if i see one more eames lounge chair i will literally vomit. get a grip people!!! the fifties are over. move on.

these are amazing

I love it. mainly the top photo, love the couch image. if they're not too far off the ground, it could be a lot of fun in public waiting places. outside buildings, airports, bus stations, stories. anywhere. in the home would be a little too much, unless you lived in the bauhaus.

might be fun for about twenty minutes …

I can't think of a better way to say "I care more about superficial appearance than I do about your comfort. In fact, I'm going to prove how clever I am by going out of my way to USE superficial appearance to show just HOW LITTLE I care about your comfort!"

It almost looks like they went out of their way to make the seating as uncomfortable as possible, just for the ironic contrast to the pictured furniture that you don't get to sit in-- nya-nya nya!

Now, with seating that looked like it at least TRIED to be comfortable, I'd like it a lot more and find it genuinely clever. The images are neat, having an image of furnature open into actual furnature is kind of cool. But I have a hard time feeling any love for a chair I wouldn't want to sit in. Kinda misses the point of "chair".

that is just freaking me out..

The more I look at these pictures the more I hate them! Yuck.

I would think they were cool in a gallery or airport or hotel... somewhere they would be a novelty, but nowhere in a realy house could i like them! If someone invited me over to their house and all they had was THIS to sit on, I would never come back!

Is that an actual table in the center? How can you eat on that? Your left arm, and the other person's right arm, bang against the wall! I couldn't imagine anything worse for eating or writing or anything you're supposed to do on a table for more than two minutes!

i wouldn't trust that to hold me up

I love all 3. But really as little tables, not chairs. I don't expect to be too comfortable in them but love the idea of them as benches in spaces too small and high-traffic to fit the actual seating pictured. It would be terribly fun for kids. kinda like a life-size pop-up book!

The only uncomfortable one of the three is the middle one simply because it seems leave no real shoulder room while facing the dining table. I wish there were pics of people using or standing next to them for scale.

And I'm fairly sure the designer would've factored in load bearing into the cantilevered designs.

Just as annoying in a real house as it was in my childhood dollhouse. I hated those pictures of furniture on the wall! Who did they think they were fooling, anyway?