Knobbly foam sphere furniture

Belgium's Maarten De Ceulaer displayed his knobbly chairs and sofas at Milan's Spazio Rossana Orlandi. The series is called "Mutation."

Each piece in the Mutation series is made from foam spheres, cut so they fit together, attached to a frame and coated in rubber or flocked. De Ceulaer’s work is also on show at the Triennale di Milano and as part of IN Residence at Ventura Lambrate.

Mutation by Maarten De Ceulaer (via Crib Candy)

(Photo: Nico Neefs)

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To me it looks like a vastly-enlarged molecule, you can see the atoms!
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You really ought to get that thing looked at…
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Warning: Prolonged sedentary activity on this couch may lead to phagocytosis!
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