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What's with the "Island of Misfit Toys" furniture theme these days?

Yeah, I'm with the other Patrick. What *is* with all this silly stuff?

I was going to restrain myself, but then I saw these two comments so I'll pile on and say, I hate this! WTF?

And, the way this chair is configured, I wouldn't sit down too fast...!

Just 'cuz you can doesn't mean you should... it's the design principle I live by.

Clicked onto to AT and was pleasantly surprised to be engaged by this chair. If nothing else this chair offers a good lesson in the virtue of deconstructing a chair to discover its essence and, in this case, the conundrum presented when the up resembles the down. Whoever wrote the caption really caught the point of this chair. I wouldn't want a set of six or eight, but one chair would be a useful reminder as well as an occasional... chair. Thank you for this Saul Steinberg of a chair.

"Aspetta... sacrifichiam la sedia!"
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One part bentwood chair
Three parts handsaw
Two parts gorilla glue
...and it's art!

Marco--

I'm all for the artistic journey, but how does this end result get any closer to "essence of chair" than what he started with... a very straightforward piece, in its own right?

My reaction was also do in part to the very recent post about the other furniture artist who seems to graft chairs together, not just to this one chair/artist.

Can I chop off the top of a chair and call it "design"???
; - )

It looks exactly like a broken chair, like something you'd find buried in someone's attic, or garage sale .. especially in that finish. And, like others said before, it doesn't look usable or comfortable at all.

You guys are toooooo serious! It is a form of visual commentary and how our acceptance of forms can fool what we really see. It is showing us how our "box" of perception works here by stepping outside it. That is always a valuable lesson regardless of whether you want it in the dining room. You can apply the idea to countless other boxes we fail to recognize in loads of furniture and every other form of social medium or any object's rhetorical meaning. I may not like to own one, but I like what it is telling me about my world.

While I can (kind of) appreciate the statement or whatever that this makes, my apartment is so small, I can't afford to waste a square inch of space on a piece of furniture that isn't functional. I don't think you could actually sit in this chair comfortably, right?

Actually, I think it seats two.