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There's something about the shape of these that gives me an ill feeling...like the lamps are overweight people wearing clothes that are waaay too tight. They're just so visually heavy for something that is suspended in the air.

Wearing a straight jacket or being strapped to the chair is a much more effective design solution than padding your lamps.

yuck.

The hanging lamps are okay. The table lamps, not so much.

I would not decorate your home or mine with these lamps.
And I do love a tufted chesterfield sofa, wing back chair or hassock as an acent, but not a lamp!

My god those are ugly! Gross.

fug.

What next - A Brass-plated Swarovski sofa?

I'm afraid someone might sit on the floor lamps.

I don't like them at all.

Different is not necessarily bad. They're different. I just don't like them. Too 70s looking.

Maybe these would look okay in context (and definitely not as a focal point!!), but it would take a really talented designer to make those look good.

Those pendant lamps are awesome!
The floor lamps would be better as a table.

there is something very suffocating about them...

I can't actually find a picture of one, but these remind me of an upholstered bar you might buy for a corner of your family room, really just a cheap little counter and two stools nobody would really ever sit at, not the cabinet where you'd store your liquor and glasses, not a room set aside in your house or even a devoted corner of your dining room. Cheesy and strange.

even more No than the animal print paper lanterns.

I agree w/ Haley -- it would take a talented interior designer to make these work. But they just live in a limbo between "attempted classy" and "humorous ironic". Erg and bleah.

Where to vote?

In any case, a most definite not, not, NOT!

I kind of want to punch the ceiling lights.

Not my style... but I like the idea actually. Kind of flirty, funny play with the idea, almost as if they were winking at you. I would not take them seriously, but rather as a statement, one thing in the room kinda thing (I mean - not as addition to other similar style chairs or sofa).

I'm alone in being able to imagine these working somewhere, I guess. I think they're kind of interesting. No, I don't know where exactly, but I think I like them at least a little more than I don't.

I thought the ones with legs were table lamps, not floor lamps... whoops. Either way, I don't care for them.

Maybe for Hugh Hegfner's pad.

Ugly!

1) Hanging cord and legs are too thin - the design needs a more substantial support in keeping with the feeling of overstuffed opulence. And a big fat tassel hanging over one side.
2) These appear to be upholstered in acetate satin, which makes everything look cheap.

ChristopherB nailed it... "just so visually heavy for something that is suspended in the air."

Though I had the same initial thought as Ssssasha... a punching bag (albeit an overpriced one).

Just one more way for someone to capitalize on an overdone fad.
While I'm not a fan, I would love to see someone attempt to make this work in a room somewhere.

the lamps require a P(2) punch line

fugly