Bastard chairs of China

Years ago, photographer Michael Wolf became fascinated with improvised, DIY, and haphazardly-repaired chairs that he encountered in China. He called them "bastard chairs" and compiled them into a 2002 book titled Sitting In China. You can see a selection of those chairs at his Web site. "Michael Wolf: Bastard Chairs" (via Accidental Mysteries)

• [awjt]

  That’s totally awesome!  When I was in China, I was constantly looking for a good place to sit down.  People would leave old chairs, cinder blocks, stacked rocks, haphazard cushions, cardboard-on-a-rock, piles of recycling, or just a newspaper on the sidewalk,  etc etc everywhere.  If you wanted a little sit-down, all you had to do is just scope it out and plunk down.  Nobody cared.  The main thing was to have something between your butt and the surface, because people SPIT and throw their cigarettes everywhere there. 

• [sarahnocal]

  Not sure why he had to go to China for this…

  • [cdh1971]

    Ole Missus marry “Will the weaver”
    Willum was a gay deceiver
    Look away! Look away! Look away!
    Dixie Land

    But when he put his arm around ‘er,
    He smiled fierce as a forty pounder,
    Look away! Look away! Look away!
    Dixie Land

    His face was sharp as a butcher’s cleaver
    But that did not seem to grieve ‘er
    Look away! Look away! Look away!
    Dixie Land

    Ole Missus acted the foolish part
    And died for a man that broke her heart
    Look away! Look away! Look away!
    Dixie Land

• [Paul Renault]

  Pfft!  Amateurs! 

  Bed, Sofa, and two desks, made from FedEx boxes.
  http://www.thedigeratilife.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/20/how-to-furnish-your-house-on-any-budget-even-for-free/

• [acerplatanoides]

  “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion” – Henry David Thoreau