Ellen DeGeneres and Gladys Hardy of Austin, Texas
Am I the last person in the world to see this?
couch whisperer
We watched a show about people who talk with animals. I’m going to start communicating with furniture.
Canevese Giuseppe’s Graphic Furniture
Ara Chest
Joris Laarman, Bone Furniture
fullmoon sideboard
but will it match my 256 color rug?
The Pixel Couch. I want one:
via swissmiss
Vintage Microwave
Stephen reviews “A selection of curiosities from the free section of Craigslist”:
I am moving and sadly cannot take these chairs.You say you are sad, but you are moving because you want to get away from these chairs. These chairs are destroying you. They have held you hostage for years, threatening your family with their aggressive, visceral ugliness. Your entire post suggests Stockhom Syndrome, but don’t worry, we’ll get you through this.
There are 4 of them.This is worse than I thought. I’ve contacted the authorities. Your neighborhood is being evacuated right now. Take your birth certificate and passport, leave everything else behind. Leave the back door unlocked.
They are grey mohair.That almost sounds respectable, doesn’t it? Mohair. Get out of the house, now.
They roll.We appreciate the warning. This is an ugly that may be difficult to contain. Homeland Security is cordoning off all of San Francisco.
SCRAPILE
They yclep us doormats . . .
Two Danish academics, Klaus Kjöller of the University of Copenhagen and Tröls Mylenberg of the University of Southern Denmark, conducted a thorough analysis of the names used in the IKEA catalog. They concluded that the Swedish names are reserved for the “better” products, and that even Norwegian names manage to make it into the bed department. But the “lesser” products bear Danish names like “Roskilde” and “Köge.”…Upholstered furniture, bookcases and multimedia consoles, for example, are named after small Swedish cities, while Norwegian towns serve as the namesakes of beds, dressers and hallway furniture. Names of Finnish origin grace the company’s chairs and dining tables. As it turns out, nothing is random at IKEA. “Doormats and runners, as well as inexpensive wall-to-wall carpeting are third-class, if not seventh-class, items when it comes to home furnishings,” Kjöller is quoted as saying in Nyhedsavisen, a Danish free paper. The stuff that goes on the floor, Kjöller said, is about as low as it gets. He accused the home furnishings company of “Swedish imperialism.”
(from Org Theory, via Law and Letters)
Box Sofa
parking chair
On Melwood Avenue, in North Oakland. In Pittsburgh, you can hold a parking space in front of your house with an old chair. Somehow nobody steals the chair, either. This one was particularly broken down, and I’m not sure why it had a bit of clothesline tied to the back. The back was the one part that still seemed to be holding together. Maybe it was like tying a string around a finger to remember something? I wonder what chairs have to remember.
[Comments are closed, but for more discussion of parking chairs, and a link to a parking chair t-shirt, you can visit the Spreadshirts blog.]
Greed for Quiet
See the Flockers’ Kitchens: India
Taken back in June. Yes, those are cake pans heaped in the dish drainer.
E_Volve_Table
Home Decorating Trends I Don’t Get
Once, in a veterinarian’s office, I got acquainted with the ‘office cat’, and the vet told me that he had that cat because a client brought it in to be put down. She’d redecorated, and the cat no longer matched the furniture. Honestly.
Werner Aisslinger: Soft-Cell Gel Furniture
Nelson Swag Leg Group
Recharging Desk
eCoupled transfers power through a magnetic field, so only the eCoupled device itself needs electricity. Everything else charges upon contact with the magnetic field, David Hazlett of Fulton Innovation said in an interview with Reuters.
Scarlett Daybed
Colors Chair
Oasis Bench
Design Public
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Split Rail Couch
Botanist Flora Bench
