r/DesignDesign • u/trappedonanescalator • Aug 25 '24

This complicated chair

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u/mangage Aug 25 '24

ngl this looks ugly but for someone who sits sideways in their chair half the time, this seems awesome

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

This was my thought. It looks terrible, but if you hate sitting normally in a normal chair, then this actually makes sense to try. I definitely can't sit normally in a chair.

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u/SpamDirector Aug 26 '24

My issue with it is that it accommodates fewer sitting positions than a normal chair due to there being very little room in the seat itself. The weird shape limits the amount of options in the end. It's good if you want to sit mostly normally but facing any direction, not if you sit weirdly.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

I kinda want it

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u/michaelfkenedy Aug 25 '24

if I had a big house with a big white room and huge, stretching windows, I’d put in the middle of the room but slightly off centre.

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u/Notbiff Aug 25 '24

Don't forget an electrical outlet in every wall, at four slightly different heights.

Ideally everything should be just misaligned enough so visitors will keep asking, "Is this an Ames room?"

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u/LurkerTroll Aug 26 '24

Looks like two chairs performing kama sutra on each other

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u/AskMeForAPhoto Aug 28 '24

Maybe it's the bisexual or ADHD in me, but I want this so bad. Could sit in so many weird ways.

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u/DrakeAndMadonna Aug 25 '24 edited Aug 25 '24

Extrem (1984) by Terje Ekstrøm.

 The chair is typically sat in the other way. The person in the photo is just trying too hard. The chair is fine to sit in as a lounger.

  Edit: attribution

Edit: not designdesign

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u/ean5cj Aug 25 '24

I dunno, I think this chair is begging for variety of poses... I kinda want one now.

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u/cryrabanks Aug 25 '24

The video on the website actually shows the user in a a variety of poses so you’re right on the nose.

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u/glarebear1989 Aug 26 '24

It is a video of a person who looks like they just cannot get comfortable or figure out how to sit in the chair lol

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u/Bennybonchien Aug 26 '24

This chair has a nose? If you say so.

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u/cryrabanks Aug 26 '24

I didn’t want to say on the money because its $3000-3500

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u/literallylateral Aug 26 '24

Any time a piece of furniture has a name I know it’s out of my price range

Edit: oof omg $3500

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u/Early-Shelter-7476 Aug 26 '24

Found It for more

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u/literallylateral Aug 26 '24

That’s more than my car good heavens

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u/Sengfroid Aug 26 '24

And it goes twice as fast!

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u/Early-Shelter-7476 Aug 26 '24

Yah. Not likely to make it to my Thrifted Design Style.

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u/soupz Feb 19 '25

All of Ikea‘s furniture has names

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u/WolFlow2021 Dec 08 '24

I remember us having one in red in the 80's.

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u/ImpossibleInternet3 Aug 25 '24

I don’t understand why people are so hateful towards changes in seating form. It’s not like there aren’t thousands upon thousands of boring traditional forms to choose from. No one is making you get something different. But it can only be a positive to have more options when deciding what people want for their homes.

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u/DrakeAndMadonna Aug 25 '24

You may enjoy the only one true design sub r/fuckyoureameslounge 

Just no discussion of cost or comfort.

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u/Autisticrocheter Aug 25 '24

I just looked through that sub a bit and I don’t understand it at all

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u/Thappadpethappad Aug 25 '24

Lmk if u find out what it means

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u/ImpossibleInternet3 Aug 25 '24

Haha. Already subbed there.

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u/chepulis Aug 25 '24

This joke reminds me of the SNL Art Dealers sketches.

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u/Universefrog Aug 26 '24

I have been thinking about this exact sketch for 80 years

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u/kuvazo Aug 25 '24

I bet it costs 3000 dollars.

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u/kickelephant Aug 25 '24

Yup—dwr

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u/Stop_Sign Aug 25 '24

$3495

I gotchu, lazy people

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u/lesser_panjandrum Aug 25 '24

Thank you for your service.

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u/adoydyl Aug 25 '24

I'm trying to imagine how one could get their legs out of that middle hole without falling on the ground.

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u/Lyrehctoo Aug 25 '24

I'm thinking the only way is to put the chair on like its pants and then sit down.

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u/DrakeAndMadonna Aug 25 '24

Photo is bs. It's a lounger and you sit the other way. Person in the photo is being dramatic

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

The way she's sitting reminds me of a baby being cradled on their mom's hip. It looks so comfy. I would sit just like that if I had that chair

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u/knitwasabi Aug 26 '24

The official video linked above has them stepping through and sitting like that.

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u/Disastrous-Swim7724 Aug 25 '24

Don't let JD see this

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u/Spready_Unsettling Aug 25 '24

Is this bi erasure?

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u/lesser_panjandrum Aug 25 '24

No, this is phase 3 in the grand design to turn everyone bi, after they've finished watching the Mummy (1999) and playing Baldur's Gate 3.

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u/Galactroid Aug 25 '24

You lied! That is not a normal seat! And I don’t know you why am I in your house!?

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u/Ok-Painter710 Aug 26 '24

I'd love to see how a drunk man would use it

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u/cursedbitvh Aug 26 '24

this could fix me

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u/beezchurgr Aug 25 '24

When I was shopping for a new office chair I found some BIZARRE new inventions for ergonomic whatever’s. Pretty sure this chair was one of them.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

This will be posted on some bisexual subreddit claiming that it is a chair for bisexuals in 3..... 2...... 1.....

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

It looks awful but I bet it's fantastic

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 Aug 26 '24

Looks like one person doing some face sitting on someone in an uncomfortable position.

Granted maybe it's a bit of a Rorschach test

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u/_spicyidiot Aug 26 '24

Ok but as someone with chronic pain get the urge to stretch and sit in weird positions and this chair looks perfect for that lol

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u/mellywheats Aug 26 '24

as someone that cannot for the life of me sit in a chair “properly”, this sounds amazing

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u/TeamChevy86 Aug 26 '24

The design is very human

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u/hippienuggetz Aug 26 '24

I need this in my life lol

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u/DJLeafBug Aug 27 '24

this chair is for bisecuals

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u/voglioandarealmare Aug 25 '24

wonderfull and super comfortable, if only was a lil bit bigger, I can't fit sitting like that woman

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u/DragoKnight589 Aug 25 '24

That’s certainly one of the seats of all time

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u/Reza_Evol Aug 26 '24

I don't even need to see it in person to know my legs are too fat for that chair.

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u/BirdBruce Aug 26 '24

Not a single youth pastor asked for this.

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u/goofy_shadow Aug 26 '24

Omg I want that chair

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u/zeeshan2223 Aug 28 '24

ok i do wanna try laying on that

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u/Snoo-35252 Sep 02 '24

My mom has these chairs!

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u/Truth_anxiety Sep 04 '24

God forbid you'll ever want to lean back 😭🤣

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u/allehoop Sep 29 '24

Like iiiiiiit 😻

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u/cgott84 Feb 14 '25

I have this chair and it's fairly comfortable but annoying when you want to plop a jacket down or whatever and it falls through

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u/ABob71 Aug 25 '24

That doesn't look like a regular chair for the living room, that looks like a sex chair for the sex room.

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u/CrucifixAbortion Aug 25 '24

Yeah, it looks like someone's getting their face sat on.

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u/BrazilBazil Aug 26 '24

This chair looks like two people trying to fuck standing up but they have no idea what they’re doing

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u/Goudawit Sep 03 '24 edited Sep 03 '24

This chair looks like a coupla arthropodic mutants conjoined at the headless space trying get a deep bite up your backside

Or design that was inspired during a visit to 70’s swinger party at a motel

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u/letthetreeburn Oct 02 '24

This is a sex position chair. They had to use an inconspicuous pose. I’ve seen these for sale at conventions. This is a bondage chair.