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Jill Harness
Yeee-ouch! Uncomfortable Chairs Galore
by Jill Harness - November 9, 2009 - 10:31 AM

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Everyone’s seen comfy, soft and ergonomic chairs. You’ve probably even seen uncomfortable chairs that were just designed badly or cheaply, but you probably haven’t seen too many chairs designed solely to be uncomfortable. Sometimes designers need to stretch their minds through experimentation though, and the 13 chairs on this WebUrbanist post are a perfect example.

This pencil chair created by German designer Kerstin Schulz looks like it would be more appropriate in a interrogation room than a living room. To be fair though, the chair was created with good reason—to celebrate the pencil company Faber Castell’s 100th Anniversary in 2005.

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Comments (5)

  1. I think you could make a very cool pencil chair without making the pointy ends sticking into the seating surface.

    posted by dan1101 on 11-9-2009 at 1:50 pm

  2. If you know anything about physics, you’d know that that wouldn’t really hurt at all. Your weight gets distributed over all the points. Just like a bed of needles, which are also comfy.

    posted by SticktheFigure on 11-9-2009 at 3:49 pm

  3. Maybe afterwards, you could sit on a rubber chair to remove all the graphite marks on yer bum.

    posted by Bakedpotatoes on 11-9-2009 at 10:18 pm

  4. The question is, would you rather have to sit in it, or have to sharpen it?

    posted by Joe Maz on 11-10-2009 at 12:17 am

  5. Also, I’d have to say that I’ve always done my best to avoid sitting in #2.

    posted by Joe Maz on 11-10-2009 at 12:21 am

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