Knot Chair: cozy, semi-stone-age

John Makepeace's Knot Chair, a finalist for the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize, poleaxed me this morning during my dawn RSS patrol. Something about it -- it seems so friendly, homey, something between a twig chair at a cottage and a furnishing from the Flintstones house. It's got the desiderata enzyme, whatever it is.

Prince Philip Designers Prize 2010 Shortlist Announced

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monstrinho_do_biscoito

yes to Anon. #4
gaspergou

Looks like something from Ed Gein’s house to me.

I guess there’s no accounting for taste.
Anonymous

Use of Weapons.

NB: If you don’t already recognise the above reference, untangling it is a massive spoiler. Just read the book.
lysdexia

Looks more like descolada virus.
Anonymous

Anyone else think of Ian M Banks’ “Use of Weapons” when they look at this?
Anonymous

I was just stopping in to mention Use of Weapons. I think I will go be creeped out for a while now.
trebonius

It looks like the bones of a once-great chair beast.
thelibrarian

I too immediately thought of “Use of Weapons” when I say the photo.
braininavat

Well it’s certainly ugly enough to win a prestigious design contest. And it’s been so long since I read ‘Use of Weapons’ that eyedontgeddit.
andyhavens

It looks like the last character I created in Spore.