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DIY Stack Chair
From bookofjoe.com:1. Use tape, construction paper, plastic, or paint to create a chair's back on a wall against which you stack magazines and newspapers.
2. Put your stack of magazines and newspapers in their usual spot.
3. Sit.
2. Put your stack of magazines and newspapers in their usual spot.
3. Sit.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Nov 21, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture
Death by Gas-Lift Bed
Helen Davey recently died when her "Ottoman-styled gas-lift bed" collapsed on her neck and asphyxiated her.I didn't know what a "gas-lift bed" was, so I googled it and found the video below. I agree with the coroner that the design of these beds seems dangerous.
We've previously posted about dangerous beds with the case of the man who was trapped for five days in a folding bed.
More info: cnn.com
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 15, 2024 -
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Category: Death, Furniture
Miss Furniture
She won $2000 worth of furniture. In today's money that's almost $25,000. That's a decent amount of furniture.
Pottstown Mercury - Aug 16, 1954
Allentown Morning Call - Aug 23, 1954
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 01, 2024 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Furniture, 1950s
“Dispatch from Solitude #1: Walking the Unknown Path”
The artist's homepage.Social Distancing & Art Episode 3 from Ogden Contemporary Arts on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 16, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture, Hunting, Trapping and Other Wilderness Activities, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art
Lamp shade hostesses
The cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks has apologized for having hostesses wearing lampshades on their heads greeting guests outside its "CyberRisk Collaborative Happy Hour" event in Las Vegas.More info: BBC.com
Perhaps they were inspired by the Lamp Shade Queen of 1939:
Posted By: Alex - Tue Aug 20, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture
Combined Woodworker’s Push-Stick and Furniture Alarm Unit
British inventor David Bartram was granted a UK patent (GB2233932A) in 1989 for his "woodworker's push-stick and furniture alarm unit."In its first possible use, as a push-stick, his invention allowed woodworkers to push pieces of wood through a table saw while keeping their hand safely away from the saw blade.
In its second possible use, as a furniture alarm, the stick could be attached in between the legs of a chair. If the occupant of the chair happened to lean backwards, raising the front legs of the chair off the ground, the furniture alarm would emit a "startling warning."
Bartram clearly was annoyed by people who leaned backwards in chairs. He wrote:
This strains, loosens and can ultimately destroy, the chair joints. Quite apart from the fact that the chairs were not intended for such use, the costs nowadays of stripping and repairing a chair whose joints have become loosened can be high.
Of course, for his invention to function as a furniture alarm some kind of "gravity-orientated switch" would need to be incorporated into it. Based on his patent description, it's not clear if Bartram had ever gone to the trouble of doing this, but it seems that he didn't anticipate it would be a problem.
He didn't address the major limitation of his two-in-one invention: if you've got it attached to the legs of a chair it's not available to use as a push-stick, and vice versa, if it's in your workshop being used as a push-stick, it's not guarding a chair.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 31, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture, Patents, 1980s
Library Chair
"Library Chair" by Richard Mauro, 1978. Cargo netting and five hundred paperback books.
image source: are.na
Posted By: Alex - Sat Jul 06, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture, 1970s
Easter Lifting and Heaving
Easter is early this year: March 31st. So you'd better bone up quick on the old practice of lifting strangers up in chairs.According to Hone, the practice was common in Lancashire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and other parts of England. Groups of people would gather together in the street and physically lift those they came across into the air, expecting a financial reward in return. Hone describes the practice as differing slightly in different parts of the country:
In some parts the person is laid horizontally, in others placed in a sitting position on the bearers’ hands. Usually, when the lifting or heaving is within doors, a chair is produced, but in all cases the ceremony is incomplete without three distinct elevations. (SCM 03706, p. 426)
In Warwickshire, Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday were known as ‘heaving-day‘, because on the Monday it was the tradition for men to ‘heave and kiss the women’ and on the Tuesday for the women to do the same to the men. Hone viewed the practice as, ‘an absurd performance of the resurrection’ derived from the Catholic church.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 06, 2024 -
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Category: Furniture, Holidays, Easter, Regionalism, Foreign Customs, United Kingdom
Cremation Bed
Use it as a couch, a bed, or a coffin.Available from dögg design.
via bookofjoe
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 09, 2023 -
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Category: Death, Furniture
Coffin Chairs
London-based "Chairbox Design" has come out with what it calls "The Last Shift Office Chair." It's a coffin chair.I don't think this is a product one can buy. Instead it seems to be a mock-up to make the point that sitting all day in offices is killing people.
Though if they aren't for sale, they should be. They'd be perfect for funeral homes, or vampires.
Coffin-shaped furniture is becoming a recurring theme. We've previously posted about the Coffin Cradle and the Coffin Bed.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 05, 2022 -
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Category: Death, Furniture
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