Bath and Beyond Chair

We've seen couches made from clawfoot bathtubs — the lines of the antique design lends itself perfectly to tongue-in-cheek reinterpretation as a classic setee. It makes sense, then, that the more pedestrian drop-in tub, receiving the same treatment, would come out looking like an Eames armchair.

The drain in the seat and proven water-worthiness of the piece make it well-suited to the task of, well, being a bath chair, but we wonder if it would look kind of redundant and strange next to a tub serving its original function.

Well, if one were to remodel an old 1980s bathroom, tearing out the old drop-in to replace it with a super-modern shower-room and stone tub, here's one thing they could hypothetically reuse.

By Reddish Design Studio.

Comments (11)

Good Lord - Another stupid chair made from a bathtub...
Enough!!!

posted by bepsf on March 6th 2008 at 11:57am
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Horrid. Just because something can be done....

posted by besimple on March 6th 2008 at 1:00pm
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i echo your sentiments! enough already! they're fugly. there is not one nice-looking tub chair in existence.

posted by *heather leaf* on March 6th 2008 at 1:14pm
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HATER ALERT! whoooo whoooooo (that's a storm siren)

I like this one.. the ones posted earlier weren't really my style.. but i really like the look of this. Its kind of a cold-war, airplane scrap-metal franken-chair.

though, i dream of living in a poured-cement cube, so my tastes are not exactly fancy.

okay.. the legs are ugly and the raw edges arent very nice. but the concept sure beats paying a ton of money for trophy-furniture..

posted by antimatt on March 6th 2008 at 1:49pm
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Do these chairs gross anyone else out?

I can appreciate the concept, but they just don't work for me...

posted by Jess2nola on March 6th 2008 at 2:36pm
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GREAT JOB!!
I like it so much....so creative...

posted by RKDsign on March 6th 2008 at 3:01pm
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It reminds me too much of Fountain by Marcel Duchamp.

posted by fuel.shy on March 6th 2008 at 4:16pm
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I think I love how much these polarize people even more than I like or dislike the chair.

posted by artnerd on March 6th 2008 at 4:27pm
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Great concept and execution -- best of the bathtub chairs so far since it actually looks good... in a neo-machine-age, post-industrial repurposed-design sort of way.
I'm promptly adding it to my "gotta find some time to do it one day" list!

posted by lightspeed on March 6th 2008 at 8:14pm
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I like the ones that are more like a sofa, with colorful fabric inside. This one has a fun shape, but I would find it difficult to use anywhere. Maybe as patio furniture?

Maybe if it was bit more polished, I would like it as an idea, but now I'm just not thoroughly convinced...

posted by Lilli K. on March 6th 2008 at 10:04pm
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Is it comfortable?
I wish one day they will build a bathtube that looks as a couch

posted by mille100piedi on March 6th 2008 at 10:55pm
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