The London-based design firm FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste) cast a stool seat in the form of a bust of Hercules. You can now sit on the face of your favorite Roman-adopted Greek hero. The seat is cast from foam rubber — the same soft squishy stuff that is usually used to make stress balls...












This is hilarious. I have no clue how I would use this but I'd love to!
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As soon as I saw this the Monty Python song "Sit On My Face" popped into my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKeQpeDkoGc
Sit on my face and tell me that you love me
I'll sit on your face and tell you I love you too...
There's a bit of naughtiness so I opted to not copy the remainder of the lyrics here! But you can read them here: http://www.metrolyrics.com/sit-on-my-face-lyrics-monty-python.html
view Monica's profile
Will make a great prop in a movie to signal either quirkiness or out-of-touch aloofness.
view Boraxics's profile
It looks like a sniffer.
view Snugglitas's profile
it's almost as if things like this are being made because they can.
view patrickmc's profile
This is wrong on so many levels.
view illegal danish's profile
maybe for a grade/middle school art class, or a museum that is focussed on art for youth/tweens?
once students are able to get to an age where respect for whimsy turns into an invite for ridicule, this item would be lost.
i honestly can't think of anywhere else where these would be appropriate.
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Hilarious, i also thought of MP immediately, i can't image having such a thing in my house, but only becuase i couldn't bring myself to BUY a squishy herculues face/chair.
However, if it was a gift, why sure... i'd put it by the landing strip (heh heh) for shoe tying.
view DahliaCactus's profile
Gives new meaning to the term, "cheek to cheek"...
view lightspeed's profile
I love it. It would look awesome in the right backyard.
view charlieb's profile
I really can't decide, maybe the idea isn't treated exactly the right way...
view Daniel Poitiers's profile
Hahahaha! Monica, same here. I instantly started singing, "Sit on my face and tell me that you love me. I'll sit on your face and tell you I love you too..."
view Alex's profile
it so fits our style here - nuts!
view Haunted_Studio's profile
WEIRD.
view Shilo's profile
Too bad there isn't video - when you stand up, does Hercules look all squished and disgruntled for a while?
view luna's profile
Are you trying to make me cry today? Because you almost did it with this one! Wow!
view La loca's profile
This is really in the theme of "we like to be weird," who just have to have weird things and assemble all the weird things together in their apartment or house because they just don't want to be normal. It is a look that can work, which I can admire when it does, but I think it's very hard to do. It's not going to do so well in a fairly empty or mostly conventional looking space, especially since jokes typically just don't live long enough to hand over the money and take it home with you. Granted, everyone has a joke they never get tired of, but your family and friends wish you would just tell it to yourself then.
Sometimes I think this site has veered off into the "Holy shit, can you believe this exists?" realm rather than exploring the world of design and sharing things people would actually enjoy and can use. Eccentricity is certainly interesting and keeps things lively, but then once in a while we get a blogger who has never heard of knitting with cat fur and thinks we would all be fascinated to learn about it, or thinks curtains that look like Hammer pants are so retro, and it makes me feel like I've been kicked in the shin.
view K T G's profile
While I am not sure about it as a stool ...
I would LOVE to have just the foam rubber bust. It would look fun thrown in with a bunch of plush pillows on my bed.
view JPK's profile
butthead
view Volvoguy's profile
It would appear some designers are so desperate for attention that they come up with the most outrageous thing they can think of just for some transient press.
Apparently, Fashion Architecture Taste is the panty-less, nipple slip, sex taped celebutante of the design world.
view RichardinLA's profile
Love it! Love it! Love it! (this is sick)
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