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It makes me want to weep.

This treads very close to what's covered in Feministing's coverage of furniture (and fixtures - the number of urinals that are shaped like a woman's ass are horrifying) that objectifies women.

A la: http://feministing.com/archives/009076.html

Also, if Pharrell sits in this, does that mean he's participating in the implied act? Imagine the "toys" that would be required!

It's just too many flavors of ugly all at once. Mainly its bad intentions are the ugliest piece of it. And if anyone on here ever notices, I have a pretty wide range of things that I can liking or at least kind of liking.

Uggh. This is one of those things thats going to be posted on ebay in ten years "SuperRARE Eames ERA Mod Pod Sex Leg Chair!!!! L@@K!!!". Or some other such nonsense.

And PS. Just because you wonder about something doesnt mean you should make it. Seriously.

not a bad idea.. but it is not executed well here.
the legs look like mannequin legs from they "young person" sections of nordstrom.. spray painted red.

I like the idea, especially since they aren't all women's legs, but the execution is pretty poor. It just looks like mannequin legs glued onto the bottom of a hospital lounge chair. The top and bottom are incongruous and jarring together.

I didn't even notice the allegedly "very naughty" allusion [insert rolling eyes avatar here] until I read the explanation, just the awkward transition between the seat & legs. I am reminded, however, of how a related idea was already executed so much more elegantly--and amusingly--by Kurt Seligmann back in the 193Os, in his L’Ultrameuble, a stool supported by three female legs in high heels. Or by the the gleaming, nubile forms of John Barry's Femlinesque furniture in the Milk Bar scene of Kubrickc's A Clockwork Orange.

Then again, the difference between those pieces and this little example of sub-crafts fair cleverness might simply be due to the fact that Seligmann & Barry were already visual artists before they turned to funiture design, and Mr. Pharrell is a musician. Or, at least, a "music star." I'm guessing that the potential audience for this wouldn't know the difference, anyway. Or care. Besides, this isn't really all that different than the gussied-up mass-produced chairs "designed" by celebrities that go for big bucks at charity auctions, except, of course, for the part about the money going to charity.

“I had often wondered what it’s like to truly be in love, not lust for once,” Parrell says of his inspiration.

Sorry, dude, you completely missed the boat with that chair to represent "love" and "being in love". That's lust.

It's about as appealing and respectful (love incorporates a certain kind of respect) as the set shown here from A Clockwork Orange:
http://notanothertop10list.blogspot.com/2008/03/top-ten-most-confusing-films.html

Objectification does not equal love.

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Jones_%28sculptor%29

And one does not sit on love. No, really, it's true.

Who is this guy, anyway? Says he does music. Let me guess...

Classical?

Ah, yes, woman as pornified f*cktoy. How *edgy*.

For more delicious (and by delicious, I mean nauseating) misogyny in design, Shakes breaks it down for ya:

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/03/today-in-disembodied-things.html

Bad design at its worst

Pharell as musician, producer and clothing designer=Hot
Pharell as furniture designer=Not

haha what a dink!

OMG, I disagreed with Magnaverde on something (the Korova Milkbar). That has never happened before.

Bart, this calls for serious thumb wrestling.

Loser buys winner new argyle socks.

I would end up walking in to the room half asleep and screaming because there were feet/people in the room!
( I tend to look where I am walking )

After Jezebella's link to Shakesville's series, this item starts to look even a little sensible.

stick to the music and wearing nice things... let the designers do their thing

No, TRUE BLUE, we don't disagree. When I contrasted the red chair's klutzy anthropomorphism with the nubile & gleaming fiberglass figures in the Korova Milk Bar, I was not indicating approval of their moral value, but merely referring to their forms & to their immaculate surfaces, in the same value-neutral way that I might describe, say, a Nymphenburg porcelain sculpture of an 18th Century shepherdess, or Jeff Koons' sculpture of Michael & Bubbles, or, according to an article in a recent New Yorker, John Currin's exquisitely rendered oil paintings depicting various sexual depravities. Presenting something icky in a prettified container is one of the oldest tricks in the Artists' Handbook, but that kind of sugar-coating doesn't make the spoiled content any less distasteful, even though fancy production values may make the ugliness look better, as in the Kubrick movie. Not, however, in this case. All question of Morality aside, this chair is still butt-ugly.

Anyway, I think the fact that we cited the same scene in a thirty-five year-old film within four seconds of each other shows we're on the same wave-length: the chair is vile.

he's hot...chair's not

Gotcha!

And I LOVE it when you talk that way! Gives me a bunch of stuff to go look up! Ha!

I did understand the "klutzy red chair" part and the "butt-ugly" part.

Making the items value-neutral, then I can see what you mean by comparing and contrasting to the Clockwork Orange items. Like antimatt and Roethke said, they (the red chair legs/feet) do look like mannequin feet.

If I wanted mannequin art, I would go elsewhere. Like here:

http://www.pushhere.com/eon/art_images/mannequin5.jpg

http://www.iatwm.com/200607/JeanTannous/index.html

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper872/stills/3ddc7a7bb9cbf-86-1.jpg

Or even here (go to the ICONS section):
http://www.sicis.com/

Check out their mirrored tubs too, wow. Shiny. I like shiny. They tile everything. I wonder if they have any tiled toasters?

Yes, of course I want a full-sized mirrored mannequin. I want to put it in the sun and stare at it. I'd get a lot more use and enjoyment out of a mirrored mannequin, used like a combination of a Victorian gazing ball and the usual David statue in a garden, than I would out of a red plastic sex chair. I don't care if my butt gets wet from morning dew, I want to see the sun rise and make the mannequin come alive.

But I bet there will be a lot of demand for that red plastic chair at bordellos (P.S. I knew EXACTLY what those feet were doing when I saw the chair. Those feet are doing it. hee hee).

Do an image search sometime for Mannequin Art. There's a lot out there. Think it would be too creepy to have body parts all over? I really like this leg:
http://twinksplacenow.blogspot.com/2008/01/getting-started.html

I think it's tacky.

they'll go well with the tables in "a clockwork orange".

he's hot, but not his chair...he should stick to music.

The unnatural love of a man and his chair.
Ugly and embarassing.