Milan 08: designer Trent Jansen’s Pregnant Chair consists of a chair with a smaller child’s chair stored in the frame under its seat.
The product was exhibited by Moooi at Superstudio Più in Milan last week.
“The Pregnant Chair expresses the beautiful physical and emotional relationship that exists between a mother and her child,” says Jansen.
“The two are both completely reliant on each other emotionally, developing a truly interconnected relationship that is evident even in their physicality.”
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Posted by Rose Etherington
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
wonderful idea!
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
creepy. but in a good way. cast human reproduction in a new way for me.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 pm
A clever novelty.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:01 am
Ohhhh this is wrong.
Nowadays design is so ****ed up that any idea, and I mean ANY idea, becomes the theme for a chair, a table or a building. Then people celebrate all this BS and we get stuck with these things that “represent” our time. Very sad and perverted this Milan furniture fair…
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:39 am
things that do not spend rest of life trying to get back in womb?
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:37 am
funny
April 24th, 2008 at 6:41 am
REX: don’t be too annoyed, you just know these pieces of s**t are overpriced and made in limited editions so they’ll end up in the homes of slaves of design where you won’t see them and in musea where you can ignore them.
April 24th, 2008 at 7:24 am
love it!
trent jansen has got talent.
the sign stool and topple lamp are awesome.
but i am biased. he teaches at my uni.
what is it made out of i wonder?
April 24th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
yea, he is talented n brilliant! hahaha
This chair is so cute! And awesome, like the rest of his designs.
And those who thinks this is BS, i think u’re just jealous. hoho
April 24th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
if this is not XXX
i dont know what else it is
LOVEEEEEE. so cute
instead of mindless replicating the same factory chunkchunk chairs
the chair actually gives birth to babies
<3
April 25th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Awful!!! It seems as if the designer hasn´t had enough time to investigate furniture design. I mean, it looks useless and uncomfortable. And I’m not jelous; I’m just trying to express my disageement!!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
The clumsiest design and the most useless chair I have ever seen! It makes me laugh!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
By the way, I think that Trent Jansen was completely drunk-with excitement, of course- when thinking of all this!
April 25th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I can’t wait to meet its grandmother to enjoy this wonderful relationship!
April 30th, 2008 at 3:02 am
I can’t wait to see what mvb and Ilg had made by Moooi too! now that makes me laugh!
quick - i’m sure you have another blog to comment on!
November 14th, 2008 at 8:25 am
I think it’s cut, it’s a piece of interesting idea, more than a functional furniture. un-fogetable.
April 1st, 2009 at 5:45 am
Go Roman heheh.
sad that people feel the need to bag out others design.
being a mother myself, i think it is a truly beautiful design and something that i can feel a connection with. Isn’t this what Jansen and all designers are trying to acheive, when they are creating. This chair expresses humaness and relationship, it’s fantastic.
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:28 am
Whats interesting about everyone’s comments, is a wonder if any of you have children? Or live in a small house? i am a mother, designer, and live in a small house and this idea is really interesting, i am constantly trying to find a place to store things. My daughter would love this, as would i. Perhaps it needs to be looked at a different perspective before it is written of as a piece of ***t.