Nightmare Inducing Furniture Fast Company

These pieces come from an article in Fast Company aptly named: 12 Terrifying Pieces of Furniture That Will Give Your Children Nightmares with the sub-text, "Plenty of the world's most buzzed-about designers will happily sell you furniture that will make your children cry." While we've seen many of the pieces individually before, seeing them all together in this collection makes us wonder just what exactly these designers are trying to achieve with these pieces? Feels more like it is design intended to push buttons not boundaries...

• 1 Chair by Jurgen Bey
• 2 Chair by Hannes Grebi
• 3 Nacho Carbonell's "Skin" line
• 4 Jason Miller Wooly Chair

Head over to Fast Company to see all 12 and tell us what you think...

Comments (17)

Hmm.... I don't think these 4 are scary at all, for any age-group. Intriguing, yes, very much so, there's a couple here that, if I had the space and money for it, I would definitely want. Some kids might be apprehensive at first but I think most will run for it and play with it.

reminds me of beetlejuice...

Amusing, more than terrifying.

The last one made me giggle. I think these are more ugly than terrifying.

These are not nearly as scary as dusty, massive old Victorian pieces (which, as anyone who has read Jane Eyre knows, can assume strange and forbidding shapes in dim light).

I like the grandma-armchair-gone-Picasso personnally.

BAHAHAHAHA

That red chair with the silver human feet on skis. What the holy hell?

Hmm .. the wierd designs did attracted my attention but i dont think people will like to own one. Its freaky!

I love the snake-chair that ate grandma's poodle. :)

SO AWESOME.

I totally want the smirking muppet chair. I mean, the Wooly Chair.

The skin stuff is truly grotesque and fascinating.

"They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,"

The Addams Family Furniture Collection.

aychihuahua...hahahahahaha...

Nothing I can say can come close to that...

Just imagine you are visiting a new friend's house for the first time- and you see the skin furniture, and perhaps the rocking chair with legs. Run away! Run like the wind! Do not look back. Delete them from your address book. Pray they do not have your address. Eat chocolate and phone your Mum for comfort. Thank your lucky stars you are still alive.

I kinda of like the cubist grandma chair although I don't know how one would even attempt to sit in it. Maybe good as a museum piece but, definitely not functional . I think the the crocet snake is funny but the other ones are a little disturbing.

I'll take one of each, please.