Chairs

This winter you’ll be able to take a break from your Pokémon Go adventures with the monster that took 17 years to stand up. ThinkGeek’s officially licensed bean bag measures nearly 4ft wide and 2ft tall. Better leave food beside it.

Designer Mindaugas Zillions was inspired by the human backbone to create a customizable chair made of interlocking birch plywood elements. The Spyndi kit has both long and short pieces that you can put together in minutes to make a variety of chairs.

Artist Harland Miller is most known for his gigantic canvas prints of the iconic Penguin book cover but with the titles replaced with sardonic statements. Other Criteria printed some of those artworks on a limited edition of deckchairs, as well as on a beach towel.

Woouf!’s beanbag sofa harkens back to the era of analog synthesizers, offering up tons of cryptic knobs and a seating surface covered with keys. The only thing better would be if it played when you sat on it. Officially-licensed by Moog. Measures appx. 53″ x 31″ x 24″.

Set up a classy Snake Mountain with this badass chesterfield chair by designer Gregory Besson. It has a leather seat cover while its skull-shaped body is made of fiberglass. You can customize the color of your order.

Pigro Felice’s Modul’Air is a collection of modular and inflatable furniture that you can use both on and off the swimming pool. The modules include a stackable base, backrests, a hammock and even a cooler that comes with magnetic silicone glasses.

Bel & Bel makes chairs partly made of the front panel and front cover of ’80s Vespa scooters. The chairs are handmade, reclinable and height-adjustable. They also retain the functionality of the scooters’ turn lights.

The Lamzac Hangout is a portable inflatable sofa. Its unique mouth and inner pouch lets you fill it with air in a few seconds. It has a waterproof nylon ripstop outer layer, measures 6.5’x 3′ when inflated and has a maximum capacity of 440lb. Drops 4/16 for $70.

Designed by Harow, creators of the Black Skull Armchair, this very special edition is for supervillains with deep pockets. Its luxurious black velvet seat is surrounded by a handmade steel and fiberglass structure, coated in 24-karat gold, bringing its price to a cool half-mil.

We can’t fathom the amount of work it took Frank Howarth to shoot this stop-motion video of a lawn chair crafting itself without a single carpenter. If it looks familiar, that’s because Frank’s bookcase and table saw posses the same magical properties. (Thanks Victor!)

Tired of dealing with dirty upholstery, Sitskie came up with its patented block furniture system. Small strips of wood joined together by elastic create a seating surface that’s comfortable and easy to clean. It’ll leave your bank account spotless too.

Julie Legros and Lavallard Boget created this truly special interpretation of a classic Eames mid-century modern chair, replacing fiberglass with concrete, and swapping aluminum for steel rebar legs. The seat side has a smooth finish, while the rear is rough and unfinished.

Loll Designs’ Racer Rocker is a flat-pack outdoor rocking chair. It’s made of 100% recycled HDPE plastic, and each one is the equivalent of 288 milk jugs. It also has a storage trunk at the back. Available in seven colors.

Wayne Yeager’s LeanChair attempts to find a nice compromise between sitting and standing at work. It lets you recline and reduce the load on your feet and legs. Use it with a standing desk or on its own with its swing arm desk.

Our Paper Life’s Room in a Box consists of water-resistant and 100% recyclable cardboard furniture. You’ll get a chair, a desk, a trash bin and 12 drawers that can be arranged into a bed and a shelf, plus a wheeled storage box.

The Skurniture is a 7-ply maple skateboard deck with steel legs attached via Philips headbolts and lock nuts for trucks. The deck comes in natural or black while the legs come in red, white or black. You can also get just the legs.

One of Muji’s most popular products is coming to the US. Unlike most bean bags, the Body Fit Cushion is versatile because it has both soft and firm sides. It measures about 22″x 22″x 15″ and will be available in beige or brown.

Josh Carmody’s clever stool does have legs. It’s just that there’s only three of them. The diagonal cross brace and the stool’s proportions make it seem like it has four legs when viewed from certain angles. Contact Josh to order.

These extravagant bean bags (a phrase we never thought we’d utter) are made from soft, natural sheepskin, adding a casual but luxurious feel to any space, dressing up casual spaces, and making fancy spaces comfy. Choose from 3′ or 6′ sizes.

Dvelas’ Génois are bean bags made from used sail cloth. It’s stitched in such a way that the back tenses when you sit on it, creating support. Dvelas offer more colorful ones as well as pool chair versions on its website.

Duffy London’s tongue-in-cheek bedroom chair has way more legs than it needs, just like the weird myriapodous arthropods that inspired it. Put two together for a creepy crawly chaise lounge. Handmade in London.

A public installation built for the recent 2014 Seattle Design Festival, Wover The Woven Rocker is a 15-foot-long meta rocking chair, capable of seating 10 or more people at once so they can all rock at the same time.

Can’t afford Maximo Riera’s $50,000+ evil animal chairs? Vyacheslav Pakhomov has something for the baddie on a slightly smaller budget. He makes scorpion-shaped chairs by hand out of oak and leather. Available in two color schemes.

From Etsy shop Chic Sin Design – the same shop that makes the Grizzly Bear Bean Bag – comes this badass chair. It has a movable jaw and its graphics have been machine knitted into the cover instead of merely printed on.

Etsy seller Ornald has handmade bean bag chairs that look like a vintage boxing glove. The chair is 90cm (approx. 35″) tall and is made of cow leather. It doesn’t come with filling to minimize shipping costs.