Awesome Chairs

We are loving the simplicity and the playful, mid-century mod looks of Jaime Hayon’s Lounger wing chair that he’s designed for BD, with its monochromatic color choices and optional footrest.

The Lazy Bastard chair, by Bertjan Pot for Montis, is filled with polystyrene balls and covered in a knit fabric. The beanbag filling adjusts to any sitting position and fits like a glove for optimal laziness.

We like the soft parallel lines of OffSeat, a 3 piece seating collection by Lorenzo Longo and Alessio Romano. The quilted curves cover polyurethane and the legs are made of tubular steel.

Mid-century modern fans should enjoy this luxurious nod to Arne Jacobsen in this 1950s Leather Copenhagen Chair. It swivels 360° on a brushed aluminum base and is offered in 4 colors.

Verenice Macedo has created the Galatea, a conceptual personal spa chair that includes a cavernous privacy dome, wraparound laser entertainment screen and body massage.

Dana Gordon’s Itch Chair concept has got your back: users can control a scratching actuator with a broad selection of servo-powered “fingernails” using a touchpad at the seat base.

Gabriel Cañas’ Tetris Chair has only been seen as a digital render, but he’s finally put the pieces together and created a prototype; it’ll be displayed at the Video Game Museum in Paris.

This Brobdingnagian Sports Chair ensures you’ll always have an armchair throne even in the great outdoors; it stands 5.5′ tall, supports 400 lbs. and packs in 6 cup holders.

Daniel Valdez’s Steampunk Professor X. Wheelchair is epic: made with a 150 year-old rocking chair, it’s powered with Arduino/Adafruit and has chilled vodka and cranberry juice on tap.

Its the chair that never ends: made from sheesham wood, the Jigsaw Puzzle Stool’s die-cut design can be chain-linked infinitely, ensuring you’ll never be able to buy just one.

Five years in the making, Wiege’s On Chair is off-balance in a good way: the active seat has joints that can tilt forward, back, and side to side, thereby keeping you moving while sitting.

Part good-natured prank, part social experiment, Blu Dot Studio randomly leaves 25 of their chairs on Manhattan streets, tracks who “curb-mines” them, and then interviews them.

With distressed chestnut leather on an unpolished tubular steel frame, the Bresson Rocker is the ultimate man-chair: it’s well-worn comfort for those who believe in usin’ it or losin’ it.

The Cathedral is gone, but own a piece of history with a Yankee Stadium seat which includes an authentic seat back/bottom plus commemorative arms; also available: Texas Stadium.

Ideal for dorm rooms and other cramped, couch-less spaces, the SlouchBack turns your bed into a sofa; it features built-in cup holders, removable covers and inflates in 30 seconds.

Swiss furniture company Laisr’s line of race car chairs are stationary yet speedy: these carbon fiber seats are inspired by classic race cars including the legendary Porsche 917.

Reminisce with old fighter jock buddies in style at the Phantom Bar; it features four F-4 Mk 7 ejection seats around a table made from a C-119 transport’s original cowl.

Behold, the armored throne: Aodh O Donnel’s Armadillo Chair resembles the leathery hide of its mammalian cousins, albeit with hand-bolted laminate chips over a fiberglass frame.

Nick and Beau Trincia have managed to combine a desk, a chair and a laptop case into one unit: the Openaire separates into a laptop desk and a plush chair when unfolded.

Fly by the seat of your pants through your office with this F-4 Ejection Seat; it features an authentic seat from the Vietnam-era F-4 Phantom fighter jet with matching aluminum base.

Perfect for graffiti artists who have moved onto more profitable (and legal) pastures, Fat Cap Chairs are giant spray can cap-style seats; they’re available to order in two styles.

More affordable than Embody, Herman Miller’s Setu is a multipurpose chair; its flexible kinematic spine and elastomeric fabric mesh are designed to eliminate the need to adjust your seat.

Arguably the most powerful seat in the world, Gunlocke’s Washington Chair has been used by eight US presidents in the Oval Office; royal rumps include FDR, JFK and Nixon.