Four Anthropomorphic Furnishings

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Whether for comfort, function, beauty, or humor, these four pieces of furniture are shaped like the body in one way or another...

• 1 Architect Santiago Calatrava's anthropomorphic table of glass and metal. Image: Leonardo Bezzola
• 2 the Bouloum Lounge, which most Apartment Therapy readers found "not hot" in this Hot or Not Survey
• 3 Tanya Aguiñiga's Embrace Lounge
• 4 your own little patch of grass: Eternit's human-shaped planter

Why do we create designs that mimic our own human form? Sure, sometimes it's for ergonomics, but more often we think it's purely for the appearance. Do we more closely relate to or empathize with anthropomorphic forms that are similar to our to our own bodies?

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I really love the humor in these items! Here's another one to add to your list. I needed a better looking doorstop for my bedroom door and found this fella:
http://sfmoma.stores.yahoo.net/ornododo.html
Once he's under the door he looks as if he's been caught there and is trying to squeeze out - super cute.

posted by cleanlines on May 28th 2009 at 10:48pm
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creepariffic!

posted by Classic CC-40 on May 28th 2009 at 11:47pm
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Intriguing....and so very odd.

posted by baileyb on May 30th 2009 at 4:37pm
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