Human Skin Furniture

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Furniture Designed To Look And Feel Like Human Skin

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/27/furniture-human-skin_n_5624573.html

You should always love the skin you're in. And now, you can love the skin you're sitting in.

UK artist Gigi Barker has created a line of furniture made to look, feel and smell like human skin.

There is, as New York Magazine reports, "a chair meant to mimic a squishy roll of fat and footstools that resemble deformed testes."

The furniture has been infused with human pheromones and aftershave.

Barker tells WIRED that some of her art's most enthusiastic fans are youngsters.

"Children have been one of the most interesting demographics in relation to the work," Barker said. "Without any of the hang ups we later develop, they are free to truly explore and interact with the work. Work regarding the human body is very personal and we all have a very immediate reaction to it so the reactions have reflected this."


But those looking to take home Barker's deformed testicle footstools may be in for some sticker shock.

The stool alone costs about $775 and the skin chair will run you close to $2,550, according to WIRED.

 

[Jasper]

Even though it's not real, it's still kinda creepy

 

[DrLeftover]

My guess is whoever designed it wanted to order some during WWII from various German Concentration Camps where they picked out people with "attractive tattoos" and then relieved them of their skin, tanned it, and made various 'leather' items.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I wouldn't want this in my home.. when you're laying with someone involving skin on skin contact, after a while (if it's not cold) your skin gets sweaty and maybe you'll even stick to them a little bit. Why would I want furniture like that?

 

[csc4]

it makes me extremely uncomfortable just looking at it, there's no way I'd want it in my house... to say the very least it's creepy.

 

[AcoG000]

Oh good gravy, I wouldn't put this in my house if somebody held me at gunpoint to force me to.