Architects Fashion Architecture Taste have produced a stool with a seat in the form of a bust of Hercules cast in foam rubber.
The stool was commissioned for From Now to Eternity, an exploration of designers’ use of plastic that opened in London last week.
More details of the exhibition in our earlier story. See FAT’s new Heroes of the Invisible vase in our earlier story.
Here’s an explanation from FAT:
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‘Soft Hercules’ is a stool cast from foam rubber – the soft squishy stuff that is usually used to make stress balls.
The bust of Hercules, usually something solid both in its material and the culture it represents becomes unexpectedly soft, deforming a recognizable object into stranger shapes when it is sat on. It uses the plasticity of rubber to suggest a more uncertain and doubtful state.
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
This is so stupid that I’m tempted to buy one myself…
You gotta admit that this would make a sweet kitchen stool.
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
FRESH!
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
terrible! haha!
September 23rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
asinine.
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
One can design anything. The question is “why?”
September 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Tee Hee!
Love it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm
this is a lot of b/u/l/l/s/h/i/t
you don’t want to spend time on the tube to come out and see this stuff
go to the quickest pub instead, you will find a lot more inspiration there
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
The only thing that would make this better is if it were a bust of my ex-boyfriend.
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
best of the year!
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm
smell my ass, hercules!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
ps. i meant “go quick to the nearest pub”
September 23rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
soooooooo dada… love it! i ever wanted to sit on hercules’ face… hell yeah! dont we all?
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
the word tacky is invented for these guys
christian u suck
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
It shows again that you can’t take FAT very serious…they found themselves a perfect niche…the Clowns of Architecture!
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I’m so sick of their crap.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
i like this. wish the beard is with fur or something so it’ll be even more comfy
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Actually, an Hercules bust made of rubber would be great for my home, since I have kids and the detail, texture and size on this one seems just right. Ergo, I wonder where I could buy affordable ancient art made of rubber…
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
So funny! Ass on face. They could make the chair-face of Dr. Phil too.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:33 pm
Excellent and Beautiful!!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:42 pm
This just horrible.
September 23rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Sit on my face and tell me that you love me.
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:01 pm
sometimes i wonder if designers do stuff just to see what they can get away with and then giggle in the confines in their office
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Yuk - Truly Awful - Fashion, Architecture, BAD Taste
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 pm
A classic! Thanks FAT! U rock!
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Strangely appealing. Interesting how divisive it is.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
in your face!!!… great!!!
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:54 pm
genius.
September 24th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Butthead!!!
September 24th, 2008 at 3:14 am
what about Hercules genitals? Because if i call it the common name probably my comment won’t appear on here.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:42 am
stupid… really stupid.
September 24th, 2008 at 6:44 am
very cool
September 24th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Fan-tast-tic!
September 24th, 2008 at 10:03 am
amazing ! where can i buy it ? i want one of thatS now !!!UAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
September 24th, 2008 at 10:15 am
red socks?????
September 24th, 2008 at 10:24 am
NICE FART !
September 24th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
This is an insult of the greek Hercules!! LAME!!
September 24th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Get the F#%K outta here! What a waste of time and effort.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
A Greek tragedy!
This is ridiculous and fun at the same time.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Anything that gets 39 comments is successful regardless of whether the comments are good or bad, the fact that you took the time to write - is testament enough. I am glad it bothered you.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:45 am
Scruces ^ your comment is so painfully cliché.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Kobe, how my ass taste…?!
September 25th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
gosh, I don’t like that stool much but, but each to their own i guess…
September 25th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
this is non-sense design. cant imagine any comfort & purpose of it…only pain in the *.ss*
September 25th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
The best piece of design so fart.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:38 am
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,
omg wtf?
AHAHA, this is great that its so stupid.
I gotta show this to everyone.
September 26th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
We may have hit the bottom with this one. Had its place on collegehumor.com, probably not here. If so, we might as well use a new name for designers : urban attention getters.
September 26th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
SO GOOD!
as for thibauts “urban attention getters” comment, WTF?!!!
what would you call putting up a new building, which is what most of the posts at dezeen are concerned with?
its the absolute ultimate in urban attention seeking
yet because a building is not a humourous offhand gesture, as you could interpret this stool, and architecture has the same kind of cred behind it that ‘fine art” or ‘philosophy” or any other university department has, its somehow more acceptable to your delicate sensibilities.
Get a decent haircut and a sense of humour, or as this is a post about stools
sit on it.
September 28th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
probably not the most sophisticated but still using something as sacred as a face as a plane to sit on, you got to love the way the piece works! awesome
September 29th, 2008 at 10:27 am
talking about deconstructivism…
September 30th, 2008 at 5:38 am
super sweet, and it ends
October 7th, 2008 at 10:37 am
it’s perfectly too much, i like it.