Seat Savers From 5.5 Designers

We came across 5.5 Designers this morning and think the ideas behind their work are fantastic. They are creating new products to fix or improve old ones. Click through the jump for more...

The pieces coming out of the 5.5 Design Studio feel streamlined and fun (not to mention brightly colored!) The Prosthetic Seat is no exception to this as it's functionality blends well with it's originality.
Now there's no reason to pull over and rescue that sad and lonely chair from the trash that's about to be sleeping with the fishes!

Thanks to Swissmiss for the heads up to such a fun idea!

Photos via 5.5 Designers.

Comments (15)

Interesting idea. I suppose you meant to say "not reason NOT to pull over.."

I'd rather just have the seat re-caned.

Actually, this looks like something you'd use in a museum to keep people from sitting on furniture that is old and priceless. If I saw it in someone's house, I'd assume it was just a stop-gap measure until the chair could be repaired, but I'd wonder why they didn't just put the chair in a closet, garage, etc, until they could get it fixed.

I agree, bepsf and Caitlin in Seattle.

So very ugly. Functional but unattractive does not a good design solution make. Why is it fluorescent lime green? Under what circumstances would that ever look appealing with a wooden caned chair.

Since the silly thing is meant to replace busted caning (temporarily, one hopes) why not just silkscreen a cannage pattern on clear material? Then at least it could claim a bit of self-conscious wit to leaven its lameness.

I actually like the mix of utilitarian-funky-new and old. But then again, I am a sucker for green translucent plastic. It always reminds me of the tiny windshields from Lego space ships I had as a kid.

You hit the nail on the head, ARMED STUDIO. Precisely.

witty and fun

I like it

it doesn't hide itself or its purpose

and I like that it's anti-good-taste

look where good taste has led us:

pottery barn

um.. yes, let's put a gaudy, fluorescent piece of plastic on our beautiful old chair.

as attractive as a car "bra".

Yeah, I'm with the re-caning group. Looks pretty awful.

The material seems a bit arbitrary and impractical as a seating material. Not digging it.

Considering the prosthesis is $125 Euros, I think it's not a cheap joke. Or at least not cheap enough.

But 5.5Designers aren't really looking to fix or improve old ideas as much as they are playing jokes. The black cat profile is pretty cute.

As a joke, it can be a fun, maybe even funny, piece in the right environment. For $10 maybe I could see it as a stopgap solution for a broken seat. But for 125EUR/$173USD, heck, you can have a new seat put in by a professional upholsterer. Or even pick up a pair of new-used chairs.