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Brilliantly Simple Two-Person Conversation Bench (Must See the Video)

By Rain Noe - January 26, 2015

in Furniture Design

One more from mathematical madman maker John Edmark, this one on the furniture front. Practical? No; but his Four-Legged Chair has to be the most creative two-person bench I've ever seen:

Six simple pieces of wood. But you just know that if a design student came up with this and presented it at crit, their accompanying thesis would weigh more than the piece itself and be filled with heavy-handed metaphors: "We ARE our furniture," "We SUPPORT each other," "We INTERACT with furniture when we truly FACE each other," et cetera.

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Sebastian Frith

9 years ago

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i posted this on reddit and got 5000 internet points. some guy "did the math"...

https://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude/comments/3dzuxg/the_legs_are_your_legs/

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8mismo

9 years ago

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My thesis published 5 years later accompanied by "traditional" seating:
I have had enough of this forced homogeneity in conversation due to our so called "egalitarian furniture revolution". There was a time when fat people could talk to skinny people...tall people would speak to short people. There was a time when furniture was more grounded. It was a time of benches and stools.

Really cool design.
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Fred Schechter

9 years ago

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What was that 99?
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