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Hot or Not?: The Tooth Stool by Philippe Starck

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Say ahhhh. The Tooth Stool by Philippe Starck is a giant tooth-shapes stool. We gotta say, the polypropylene molar's not pretty. But maybe you have just the perfect place for it in your home...

So, what do you say?

Comments (21)

Sometimes I think you do this just to eff with us.

posted by Doug on 2007-12-06 15:18:16
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Looks like there should be a pile of toothfairy cash underneath it. If there is, I'll take it!

posted by Alana in Canada on 2007-12-06 15:24:19
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dentist's office.

just like the brass nose door handles at the ent's office.

posted by art on 2007-12-06 15:35:13
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It doesn't look too comfortable.

posted by Mr. Dangerous on 2007-12-06 15:38:03
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How can anyone not love this?!

posted by Anna at D16 on 2007-12-06 15:50:05
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The dentist I went to as a kid had stools like these (just white, not metallic finish) in the waiting room. They were the "cool stools" and we'd all wish we could sit on them before getting our teeth cleaned. Not sure I'd want one now... but ask any 6-yr-old in a dentist office....

posted by kdb on 2007-12-06 15:57:42
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I, too remember a white tooth stool at my old dentist's office when I was a kid. I don't hate these Starck chairs only because they remind me of those memories when the little things were so cool!

posted by sspros on 2007-12-06 16:08:17
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I dislike this stool very much, especially as a reference to teeth.

But since Phillipe Starck has been the greatest thing since sliced bread to me since I was about 15, I'll ignore the theme and pretend it's an organically-shaped stool he created as an alternative to those awful painted tree stumps everyone's pushing nowadays.

And now... I LOVE it.

posted by silvarga on 2007-12-06 16:12:09
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Wait...Silvarga, are you just being sarcastic, or have you never seen the saint-esprit stool

posted by Anna at D16 on 2007-12-06 16:27:54
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a bit too camp/pop art for my tastes, but I suppose in the right space....

posted by JonathanB on 2007-12-06 17:02:03
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definitely dentist-office furniture.

posted by angorian on 2007-12-06 17:35:13
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Doug - Funny you said that. Somedays I see things like this and I think (hope) that Max & Company are giggling as they post the item and saying to themselves "oh this'll really mess with them!!".

posted by I Love Upstate on 2007-12-06 18:06:42
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Starck proves to be over rated and now irrelevant. This chair is a joke.

posted by right angle on 2007-12-06 18:33:27
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I Love Upstate, I agree. If I can guess with about 95% accuracy what the prevailing sentiment will be, I've got to believe the powers at be must be enjoying themselves. (Which isn't a bad thing.)

BTW, I've recently checked out your blog and think you have a lovely home.

posted by Doug on 2007-12-06 18:44:31
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creepy

posted by Qdrophnia on 2007-12-06 19:20:40
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maybe i'm just an overgrown kid, but i love these! i want about 32 of them, so i can arrange them in U-shape configurations and have an entire jaw of giant gold teeth. that would be pimp.

posted by lemonpie on 2007-12-06 19:45:50
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What do you guys think about this stool I just bought from GH DESIGN: http://gh-design.net/gh_go_004.html

Is it anywhere near as cool as the starck?

posted by chesterkn on 2007-12-06 21:12:15
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I had braces, a palate widener, and jaw surgery as a teenager. Then in college, a week of not wearing my retainers duing a bronchitis bout allowed my teeth to move so much that the retainers no longer fit, and the teeth kept on truckin' right out of line. Hence, a year of Invisalign ten years later to prepare my mouth for another surgery to correct problems caused by so much orthodontic work. Needless to say, I HATE anything that unnecessarily calls teeth to my attention.

posted by J on 2007-12-07 00:35:08
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Starck gets an extra point for daring to be fun.

posted by gabiushka on 2007-12-07 11:44:55
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Very McTeague.

posted by Suky on 2007-12-07 11:56:42
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I love it. I want a few. For christmas.

posted by brittanykate on 2007-12-07 16:00:49
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