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12 Terrifying Pieces of Furniture That Will Give Your Children Nightmares

BY Cliff KuangWed Apr 29, 2009

Fancy a desk that looks like it's puking its guts out? You're in luck! Plenty of the world's most buzzed-about designers will happily sell you furniture that will make your children cry. Here's some of the most terrifying designs in recent memory:

From the back, Jason Miller's Wooly Chair looks like it's just been covered in an alpaca throw...

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...but then you see it from the front, and there they are, staring at you...THE EYES:

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This chair by Jurgen Bey sports what must be a record-setting tumor:

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This bed, also by Bey, would go perfect in the home of Hannibal Lecter:

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Of couse, our man Lecter likes memorializing his kills. Ergo, this coffee table, with an interior that looks like the splatter pattern at a crime scene:

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We weren't kidding about the puking furniture. Nacho Carbonell's "Skin" line has an elastic coating. Simply remove all the chairs innards, and you've got a handy cubby hole:

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Poor Nacho. Much like Dr Frankenstein, he's doomed by his creations. Here, he's apparently been swallowed alive by this settee:

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Next to a childhood spent torturing animals, this rocking chair by David Pompa is probably a decent indicator of serial-killer tendencies:

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Um, remember the dead grandma in Psycho? With a little help from Hannes Grebi, she's got a comfy replacement for her rocking chair. Scream all you want. There's no one around for miles:

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This psychotic, ravenous frog apparently crawled out of Hella Jongerius's studio, and won't relinquish its territory on top of this table:

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Perhaps if you're keeping a gimp in your basement, you might consider this hammock, by Bless:

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So it's the year 2100. You're watching your holographic TV, munching a Soylent Green sandwich. The natural world is a distant memory, which only appears as a furniture pattern on this couch by Gaetano Pesce:

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Also in 2100, the world is rife with genetic experiments gone wrong, such as these human/animal hybrids that pose as furniture before slurping your brains out with a straw:

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Sleep tight!

[With apologies to Dezeen and Design Boom]

Topics:

Innovation, Technology, Design, Ethonomics, Scary Furniture, furniture design, interior design, Nightmares, Horror, terror, fear, Gaetano Pesce, Jason Miller, Jurgen Bey, Hella Jongerius, Nacho Carbonell, Jurgen Bey, Hannibal Lecter, Jason Miller, David Pompa, Hannes Grebi


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Recent Comments | 15 Total

April 30, 2009 at 4:33pm by Tyler Adams

Okay, that hammock actually looks pretty fantastic.

April 30, 2009 at 4:35pm by Cliff Kuang

@Tyler---Ha, yes, I agree that I would love to have some of this stuff. Maybe. But cumulatively? Terrifying, I think.

May 1, 2009 at 5:00pm by 'Jomo Starke

Maybe it's just me, but I think my kid would love these...

May 2, 2009 at 2:03pm by Temperance Davis

RE #2: Old Fashioned Crocheted Chair Avec Tumor:

That ain't a tumor. That's the Python What Ate Grandma.
See the happy and satisfied teeny weeny fork-ed tongue at the front?

Damn. You think people would know their furniture and herpetology.

May 3, 2009 at 9:12pm by David Bonifacio

I want that hammock.

June 13, 2009 at 6:20am by jim olejniczak

Wow...this was a really good article. Probably one of the best I've read on

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June 16, 2009 at 1:08am by Dave Brown

I applaud innovation. More than that, I actually think we desperately need it. But innovation desperately needs to be tempered with good taste. Unless of course you just want to scare kids or sell to celebrities.

That's ok, tho - these innovations are much better than what we typically see in US big box furniture retailers that are pumped out of chinese factories for a buck...

July 31, 2009 at 4:56am by Jagjit Chipra

Strange but lovely !!

August 17, 2009 at 2:33pm by heiner Keiling

the wooly chair is really fantastic. The others are good too, but this one looks reaally terrific.
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August 18, 2009 at 6:39pm by Florian Ilgen

The best piece without doubt is the licorice like hamock! It's just great! I like it most of all pieces.
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September 5, 2009 at 2:56am by Woolly Guy

Hahaha, this is one of the funniest article I have seen on furniture design. good job!
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September 5, 2009 at 2:59am by Woolly Guy

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September 5, 2009 at 3:03am by Woolly Guy

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January 20, 2010 at 11:46am by Frederic Plouzeau

This is a great article, I actually think it's really cool furniture although I wouldn't have it in my house.

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