Old and busted: sitting on the floor
The new hotness: sitting on a hole in the floor!
The OOoo chair is the brainchild of the design firm Decker Yeadon. It's basically a set of holes in the floor where you can slip your legs into and, well, sit down:
You can easily make your own OOoo Chair if you have a wooden floor and a basement. The OOoo Chair, you see, is accomplished by drilling O-holes in your floor, so if you live in an apartment the OOoo Chair would likely be intrusive to your downstairs neighbor.
You can easily make your own OOoo Chair if you have a wooden floor and a basement. The OOoo Chair, you see, is accomplished by drilling O-holes in your floor, so if you live in an apartment the OOoo Chair would likely be intrusive to your downstairs neighbor.
And remember folks, less is more. Now where's my router? Link
I want to see videos of people actually using this idiotic piece of crap, showing my how much easier it is to stand up when you have to scuff your feet on the underside of the floor and have only your hands for leverage.
If you click through, they've tried to justify this supremely stupid idea by making the process of drilling a hole in your floor ridiculously complicated, all to prevent the waste and pollution that comes from factory made chairs. How about you design a comfortable, durable chair made out of sustainable materials before you make me fail my home inspection you insufferable twat.
This is a joke. It has to be.
Goddamn morons. I hate design students sometimes.
2: I can move my chair anywhere in the room, without tools.
3: My chair has a backrest, and armrest.
4: The carpet does not like being sawed.
5: I live on a boat.
6: How strange that no culture, anywhere in the world ever seems to have adopted this kind of "chair".
7: I'm sueing Neatorama for millions. There was live cabling, and water pipes, where I wanted my chair. As soon as I'm out of the hospital, I'll sue.
At least you can defecate in their oochair; no such joy with their website.
“Japan had plenty of places where we sat on the floor to eat. Some places had a hole in the floor where I could let my feet hang down. That was a lot better than having to have my legs sticking out straight.” (book by James M. Hill, Sr.)
A reGoogle adding "Japanese restaurant" suggests this is a common design feature.
The biggest one I can think if is when someone steps into one of these without knowing it was there. Break a leg, crack open a skull.
One I am thinking of is you are sitting in one of these, one foot in each hole. You have a bad itch on one foot. How do you discretely scratch that foot?
Alex, you titled this post wrong. It should have been "Those ugly weird holes in your floor? They're chairs!"
Are student designers that weird, or just desperate?
And the whole "break your neck while walking to the other room" is a deal killer.
They are similar to this http://www.corbisimages.com/images/67/31E17FEC-9D11-418A-B90D-6662B10EA43A/42-18058645.jpg
In some older farm houses, the hearth was sunken in. Some houses also had a bench of sorts made around the hearth, so you could lay down maybe your soggy wet coat or whatever, while you had yourself some tea and warmed by the fire.. The bench was made from the surrounding floor. The holes are not intentional. They just happen to be an efficient design.
Yeah, because the Japanese have always been known for their completely rational culture and technology.
http://tinyurl.com/39o9ryt
Really, doesn't it look a bit "legless", having such chairs?
a-copy-with-minimalist-touch-hoping-for-something?