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Might leave a cool pattern on your butt

Would be nice to see a front view of the chair . . . kind of hard to get the whole idea from the side view only.

Tara needs a sandwich or ten.

i vote ten.

The photo seems to be more about publicity for her than for her chair.

She should be wearing a doily shirt....now that would be a cool ad. Stupid chair but cool ad.

I do think doilies are coming back.

Isn't the white on black picture of the doily from the front? I like the design, but I think I'd prefer it be embedded in clear plastic or something -- sitting on threads (or wires) seems uncomfortable to me. I know certain knotted cord hammocks are, unless cushioned.

I like the idea of it, but the pattern they put on the chair makes it look like an old lady's nightgown.

She has to make furniture from doilies because she can't lift anything heavier than a string.

From the side, it looks like washed kleenex.

Does anyone design for function any more? Or is it all just about being 'clever'?

We get it: delicate versus massive, old versus new, life is full of contrasts, blah blah blah. But is the chair comfortable? Does "recontextualizing" the doiley make it more accessible? Does the aesthetic overwhelm the function here?

What's with the weight-hate? Seriously people, get over yourselves. Tara does not need "a sandwich or ten".

Anyway. I think that the chair is nice to look at but I'd be worried that I ruined it if I sat on it! It's too pretty for my taste but I can see this in a piano room or something like that. I dig it.

It's a very model-y pose. I actually think it might be model Elyse Sewell, not the designer. Why would the designer be standing next to her creation looking so glum?

make sandwiches, not doilies.

Desperate!

As functional furniture, this fails. If it's meant purely as an art piece, I can respect it. I'm a bit sick of designers thinking that people will settle for an impractical piece of furniture simply because it looks good.

I love Elyse! But I don't think she could work with that chair without mocking it. And yes, Tara needs to eat something--her brain is starved if she thinks this chair will sell.

It is Elyse Sewell.

http://elysesewell.livejournal.com/100482.html?thread=14831490#t14831490

And you are right, Palmetto, she would mock it if the chair were actually in the original pic. ha.

haha... nice photoshop work on elyse's feet, thar.