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yeah, it's hot. a hot mess.

Ok, a couple things here. first of all, a recycled mattress as my new chair or ottoman, yeah, gross.

Second, let me just guess here that the price of it will not reflect at all that it is made out of someone's old mattress. Instead it will be ridiculously over priced. Yeah, just as I thought.

Last, if you get past it being a used mattress, couldn't you just stuff regular chairs with them, so it would look like a nice chair but be recycled? That way you could also make more instead of using an entire mattress to make one chair, you could make like 4 chairs.

plus those are fugly

It looks like it's going to eat me.

Has anyone seen those specials on tv about the people who drive around picking up old mattresses, "repurposing" them and then selling them in a warehouse for $5... then they open them up and find bed bugs and stains and all kinds of grossness? Where are they getting these mattresses?!

Also, those are all just horrible. There's gotta be a better way.

Well...the intention was good.

i'd like to see someone try to sit on that

Nice try but yuck. Most mattresses are an accumulation of dead skin, mites and bodily fluids. Even though these look like they've been coated with paintish stuff, no way one could get these clean enough for reuse.

In addition to being fugly, as jmorey says, they also looked damned uncomfortable, unless one were about 6'5" tall!

What about running the old mattresses through a wood chipper, sterilizing the "shavings" and creating new throw pillow/couch/whatever stuffings? As opposed to just folding in the bugs and what not. After recovering a chair that had been in a bad place and seeing just what was in there I'm never just reusing soft goods without a thorough cleansing.

Could these possibly be more grotesque? I don't think so!

This is one of those cases where "Reuse" isn't the right answer...

"Mattress chair for sale. Slight urine smell. $1 or best offer."

The first chair looks like an angry boil.

It looks vaguely like an intestinal tract.

1) Old mattresses are gross. Could we break down and process them a little before reuse?

2) This looks like the back of an obese person's neck. Now all I can think about is neck sweat. Thanks Frank, I'm going to skip lunch now.

Well it was a nice thought but I'm with everyone else about the material, ick! They look like split hotdogs.

The intentions are good, but honestly, this is not hygienic.

Oh, the horror!

Ohhh, I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinnnnner....That aside, I think it's interesting art, but I would never want to own one.

I wonder how green the "hygienic, water-resistant foam coating" is?
If it's polystyrene-based then it's bioaccumulative and not very green, which sort of defeats the (re-) purpose.

Oh, come on, people -- why not have the Rubens plump lady chair on one side of fireplace and yesterday's green lady's rear-end chair on the other?

(actually, I can think of several reasons why not, but I am beginning to wonder about what's going on in AT's psyche and/or love life)

The form factor screams Simpson's butcher shop. My first reaction is that it looks disgusting and unappetizing. It's also humorous in a cynical and disturbing way.

I think this piece works better as a social commentary than as furniture.

Yeah, using a foam coating doesn't strike me as green. And I would think the texture of the foam would be grosser to sit on than a used mattress covered in a natural fiber.

Recylcling is good...up to a certain point. This line of "funriture" crossed that line and is now treading back in the garbage area. It looks like someone folded up a sleeping bag, tied it to a chair and spraypainted the whole thing (most likely in a drunken stupor).

I have never seen anything more hideous.

it looks like it has what southerners call "saddlebags"

DISCRUSTING!

wow! you can have a chair that resembles your colon? HOT!!!


not.

I'll pass.

It is interesting to see really bad furniture design though.

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom (furniture design-wise) something even more worse (worser?) comes along.

Did someone really spend money on this?

looks like aliens...

You couldn't pay me to take that chair.