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Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell believes that chairs can mutate—and will, when given the opportunity. Evolution, his new collection, shows how a public park bench can become into a private pod chamber for people to crawl into when they're feeling antisocial. There's also a pod-like makeout chamber for lovers.
The lovers seat provides a private make-out chamber for tentacled aliens who don't want to freak out passersby when they kiss. Carbonell pasted recycled paper onto iron frames covered with textured chicken wire to create this effect.
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That is ten kinds of awesome. Where are my organic and mutating benches? I want organic and mutating benches. Possibly they could reproduce through spores that stick to the bench itself and the people who sit on it. Then... when people wash their pants the spores use the water and detergent to reach the bud stage. When they bud, they float until they hit land, then they start growing into bench shape. Yesssss. It is a foolproof. A fool proved it!
I love the concept, but it is just rife for abuse by sickos, perverts, and other such unsavory characters. Put it in semi-public places like museums, business lobbies, etc... and I can see these being very popular.
Put them in parks or subway stations, and I can see there being a lot of nasty things left behind for the next art lover to take a seat.
While these are cool, I'd love to see a truly organic bench that 'held' you when you sat down, responding to your body's shape like a mother holding a child. Like the doors in Hitchiker's guide, they could make some sort of emotive sigh of extacy when you sank into it.
Looks like an egg-pod from a very large preying mantis.
I don't think it would work with my decor. (giant wasp's nest)
Mumenschantz 2008!
Mmmm...nacho...
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