Definately not built for comfort.

I really hate when those damn jellyfish get stuck in my chair.

@Curves: agreed. With my bad back, I would need totake several pills if I wanted to sit in this long enough t o read even 1 post from Giz.

Tim Burtonesque.

They didn't even put that ass impression in it.

Superman's thinking spot.

Neat idea but the pattern inside of it looks like a more comfortable chair design than the actual chair part.

The lighting on this thing is very unusual to the point of being suspicious.

Semi transparent things generally photograph oddly, but the idea that the "best light" for this thing is almost complete blackness lit directly from the back suggests that this thing may or may not look anything like the picture in real life.

@ParJoe: I always intended to compliment you on your profile pic, so here it is: I like your profile pic.

Where's the chair that auto adjusts to my height, weight, build, and preference for lumbar support? Jeez, its like we're going backwards.

The chair could look like a giant middle finger, as long as its comfy.

it looks like theres some kind of smoke trapped in there....

limited edition with "price available on request"
sounds $$$$

"ghost" chairs aren't anything new. various mfr's have been making them since acrylic was invented.

If you have to ask how much that means you cannot afford it

Exactly how I would build something to be sat on for long periods of time. Hard and ungiving. With no padding. And Fugly to boot.

since its acrylic, presumably it can be made in any shape. for example, exactly the curve and size of my ass. THAT I would buy.

@undeadmachine:

thats fart gas

Gizmodo..has ANYTHING from Yanko Design ever become reality? Just don't get why so much never ever coming out stuff shows up on here.

@mtopper: A template for them to follow:

(_!_)

DWR is so not WR.

Do want.

Tentacular!

it looks like the chair has bones.

@scarbrtj: THanks man. Wish I did it. I just had it laying around as reference and then I changed the bg color.

It's actually an illustration of a trefoil knot (math thing). The original is here.

cool, expensive and crap.

another masterpiece for the architectural journals to be lapped up by the talentless academics that profess to know best.....

it's an acrylic chair. having worked jobs that designed using acrylic, i can tell you it's not "invisible", any more than the cookie tray at subway is "invisible". it's clear acrylic, so you'll see it.

it also won't be comfortable (as many have already noted), and it will get milky and scratchy very easily. acrylic scratches quite quickly, just pants moving around on it will get it milky. have a look at any acrylic cups you might have at home, they don't stay nice and clear for very long.

and based on the pics, it's made of thick acrylic, 2" maybe even more, so

1) it'll be expensive (sheets of 2" acrylic are not cheap), and

2) it'll have seams where they put the pieces together (you can avoid some of them, but not all of them - look at any acrylic box next time you walk into a department store, they're far from perfect looking).

@Curves:

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeh wheeeeeeeeeew

@flyboy:

too much cofee during the morning?

It can be done by subsurface laser engraving.
The company who made the machine (cerion gmbh) is our partner.

New technology lunched this year can make it much more faster so such products can go down with price and go mainstream.

@Darrone: The giant middle finger shape is just another plus in my books.

I guess this would go well with Kramer's car windshield coffee table.

it would have been better if they put skeletons (real human skeletons) in it instead of some-wood-odd-looking chairs.

Real human skeletons would be nice.... nice and a little creepy. But mostly nice.

@mtopper:
"wheeeeeeeeeeeeeh wheeeeeeeeeew"

Did you just have an explosive bowel movement?

Great! Let me get a few for the office and have women with short skirts sit on them while I pretent to drop a handfull of coins....hummm...excuse me while I pick up my coins!

@Dook_In_The_Urinal:

nope! I was whistlin' at the prettiest poster here.

Philippe Starck called, he wants his La Marie/Ghost Chair design from 2002 back.

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