Armchair made from rucked-up felt

Lothar Windels from the Rhode Island School of Design created this "Joseph Felt Chair 2" in 2003 -- made from "voluptuous folds of heavy red and gray felt." Link (via Cribcandy)

[#1 posted by Stefan Jones , January 25, 2008 12:26 PM]

Getting dropped keys and coins out of that thing would be a total nightmare.

[#2 posted by Takuan , January 25, 2008 12:29 PM]

that's the idea. You harvest the purchase price from visitors

[#3 posted by Moon , January 25, 2008 1:12 PM]

That looks uncomfortable. One of those folds would go up your butt crack and you may never get out of the chair after that.

/The spell check tells me it's "butt crack", not
"buttcrack" - who knew?

#1 has a good point, as well. This chair is a nightmare. All style, no function.

:D

[#4 posted by Takuan , January 25, 2008 1:14 PM]

can't tell from a picture, let your ass be the judge
(hey,just like the rest of the world)

[#5 posted by Richard Marinos , January 25, 2008 1:24 PM]

Oh great... it's a Joseph Beuys work I can sit on.

:rolleyes:

moon is right... the chair takes Beuys' originality, adds nothing, and makes it into a dysfunctional commodity.

[#6 posted by halfvenus , January 25, 2008 1:39 PM]

I cannot stand Joseph Beuys. Not one bit. So this chair is not for me.

[#7 posted by Vogon Poet , January 25, 2008 1:41 PM]

My brain Spoonerized the headline, and I thought to myself, "What's relt?"

[#8 posted by insomma , January 25, 2008 1:49 PM]

Lothar?

[#9 posted by Jardine , January 25, 2008 2:00 PM]

Maybe I'm wrong, but that doesn't look strong enough to hold up my ass. Good for lightweights maybe?

[#10 posted by neogirl , January 25, 2008 2:05 PM]

Doesn't it seem like a tiny model? Those rivets look like the kind that hold sets of plans together. You unscrew them with a flat-head screwdriver.

[#11 posted by Jenine , January 25, 2008 4:02 PM]

I've seen these in person. They're much sturdier than from what most people are inferring from that photograph. The felt is industrial felt and extremely stiff, plus there's steel inside of it.

[#12 posted by Roach , January 25, 2008 11:50 PM]

That's rucked up all right.

[#13 posted by BigFoot48 , January 26, 2008 11:57 AM]

Felt this thick would be a bit hard, me thinks, but a clever design nonetheless.