This is a chair. It has many features that most chairs carry, including but not limited to a base, wheels and a backing. There’s just one slight difference between this chair and others: it’s made out of fucking soap.
Don’t ask me why creator Nancy Wu created this. Maybe she’s dirty all the time and instead of bothering to bathe, she just soaks herself in water and sits down to work. Wait, what?
France has always been at the forefront of radical design. Designer François Azambourg takes design to the next level with his unique Pack Chair. At first, it resembles something like a blanket that’s shrink wrapped in plastic. But as we all know, looks can be deceiving. Here’s how it works:
..Designed with the intention of selling it via mail order, the chair is fabricated with an internal airtight polyester cloth pouch and a double lining that contains a two-part liquid polyurethane foam. activating a switch on the side of the flat chair, the user can start the release of the material, causing it to combust and fill the inside. the ‘pack chair’ will get its ultimate shape when the double-walled textile fibers harden on the contact with the emulsion of these two chemical products. perhaps you’ve seen a demonstration of polyurethane ingredients being mixed together, causing a very rapid and almost violent foaming reaction…within a few seconds the form is rigid.
Azambourg already has a working prototype installed at the Design Centre of the UQAM in Montreal, Canada. Perhaps we’ll see his Pack Chair at the local Walmart sometime in 2010?
A unique artist named Posterchild has transformed a series of rough, old pipes into loving seats. He calls them “seating caps” and designs them out of wood and metal. He’s made five and has installed them throughout his city. I think this idea of a “seating cap” would go over well in New York. It’s a low-cost solution to loitering!
Oobject has posted 10 videos of ejection seat tests that show the safety measures involved in testing a fighter jet ejection seat in action. If you thought crash testing cars was extreme, check out some of these videos of pilots risking their lives in the name of safety testing. No crash test dummies here, folks. Only live flesh and bone are propelled in these videos.
I don’t know why we’re so obsessed with umbrellas but I’m Gene Kelly would be proud. Take this Umbrella Stool. Going to an outdoor concert and skies are overcast? Check SimpleWeather (oh shit! a plug!) and grab your Umbrella stool. Not only will it keep your ass comfortable, it’ll also keep you dry in the event there’s a sudden downpour.
The bright red coloring might not fit everyone’s taste in style, so make sure you’re OK with that before plunking down your hard-earned $50.
How do you get your anger our? Some people like punching walls and telephone poles. Others use stress balls or meditation. But sometimes, you just have to pick up a heavy duty weapon and beat the shit out of a piece of steel. Am I right? Huh? HUH?! YEAH!
The Do Hit Chair by Droog Design is a a cube made with 0.4″ thick steel. To mold your own chair, just grab a sledgehammer and start beating the hell out of it. Once you’re happy with the design, take a rest from the exertion by grabbing a seat on your new chair. The cost of a Do It Chair is a huge turn-off though. $6718 for a pre-hammered chair and $5924 for your non-hammered piece of steel. Grr, prices like that make me want to beat the shit out of blocks of metal! (more…)
You’d think that your average white collar cubicle warrior would be hellbent on actually standing up and moving around when he’s not tied down to his office chair, but apparently, office workers just like to sit! The Briefcase Seat design from artists Joan Korbes and Denis Oudendijk provides cubicle workers a place to sit after their long day of, um… sitting?
Made using a standard briefcase, with a set of nylon straps crafted onto its body, the Briefcase Seat can be slung over any sturdy railing to provide a semi-comfortable seating arrangement for the time being. Or, you know, they could always just stand up for once. Kind of a bummer that there’s no toilet integration.
When I was a baby, as my family traveled the harsh path of the Oregon Trail, contracting dysentery and having our wagon wheels crack on a normal basis, we could hardly afford a booster seat to keep me high enough to reach our dinner of venison. We had to use the Yellow Pages to boost my booty. I remember the paper cuts like it was yesterday.
This plastic Yellow Pages-themed booster seat offers the same asteic as the ghetto booster seat of yore, for those who have the bullion to upgrade. The Yellow Pages Booster is form fitting to the babies rump, lightweight, and washable, so no more fear of leaving a stain or two. Get yours for $19.99. — Andrew Dobrow
Just be happy these Command Stools don’t say “delete” or you might be sleeping with the fishes. Designed to resemble a keyboard key, the Command Stools let you know that you have no choice but to sit. (more…)
Back in the day when the only way musicians could make a name for themselves was packing a suitcase and hightailing it to California, many entertainers were forced to spending their days sitting on the curb of the streets of Hollywood. If something like the SitBag existed, perhaps it would have saved many sore ass cheeks.
Able to work as both a chair or an ottoman, the SitBag takes the show on the road, while providing a nice comfy place to set up shop when you reach your destination or are trying to hitch a ride. — Andrew Dobrow
