Home Rejuvenation


Use some chairs to redecorate your home:-)
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Desire for the Other

DESIRE FOR THE OTHER 2004 This project was sculpted by Brian Goggin with Al Honig and Tom Kennedy. It is part of the San Jose Museum of Art permanent collection. It’s a pandemoniacal moment, bounding off the floor, an amiable enough, elongated, many legged, yet crapulous couch wraps its craning ends bulbous pillows around an under stuffed rather intellectual reading chair. Not for osculation, but for silencing consumption. An armor of orange upholstery stretches tight, seams strained, over previously pillow-gummed furniture, constrained inside the padded peptic tract but not yet dissolved, a table, a television, a lamp, and a telephone, thrust their extremities out, unlikely tent poles making fabric braille, caught in the couches duodenum. Black belly arching, red legs clambering, it peers your way.

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Bombay Sapphire Seating Installation by EUG

London based Design Studio El Ultimo Grito (EUG) presented a number of pieces at the recent DMY berlin, in germany. Their custom lounger for Bombay Sapphire is made from patch-worked material assembled into a long snake like-seating piece.

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Pet Chair Installation

Now, before you go and accuse me of being coldhearted or immune to the charms of our fine furry companions, know this: I adore my two cats, I honestly do. But if you’re even a little bit tempted to put this $445, 6.5-foot-squared monstrosity in your home, I think maybe you have a small cat problem. It’s a slippery slope, my friend. Today, you kindheartedly purchase the Cat Castle for the enjoyment of your beloved furkids — maybe getting rid of some piece of extraneous furniture like the couch or your bed to make room for it. Next year, the neighbors are twittering about you while rolling their eyes and whispering “crazy cat lady” to each other. And in a decade or so, an anonymous call to the Humane Society leads to a citation for keeping 156 felines in a urine-soaked hovel and a plea-bargain agreement involving mandatory psychological counseling. So just don’t, OK?

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Sit in a Tree

I saw this installation where you can sit on (hence with a bit of stretching the term coined Chair Installation) when I visited Venice for the 2007 Biennial. I was glad I found this post as I didn’t jot down what it was…even didn’t take photos myself then….

russel tipped me on this piece that ran on european tv channel, arte. guy ben-ner, assuming the role of robinson crusoe, starts with a ‘tree’ made out of dismantled ikea furniture. he then proceeds to take it apart and reassemble it into the furniture pieces he started with – a round table, a rocking chair, a chair a parasol and a sleeping loft. see more of guy ben-ner’s treehouse kit.

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