Furniture Design Spotlight: HUG Chair
Why your girlfriend is interchangeable with your MacBook Pro.
Spotted at the Bulgarian Design Biennial: The HUG armchair by furniture and industrial designer Ilian Milinov. (Thanks, camera battery, for dying and forcing us to resort to the crappy cell phone camera.)
The designer’s inspiration comes from the simple gestures in human relationships, like hugging your loved one, and even accounts for the intimacy deprivation of a long-distance relationship: The organic HUG silhouette makes room for a laptop when your loved one is away, for those late-night videochats that keep the relationship alive.
Gotta love the simple brilliance of its form/function hybrid — the intimacy of a loveseat sans the girlfriend-induced leg umbness, plus the comfort of a laptop lounge setup, sans the overheated quads. We want one.
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It was my favourate furniture design, too. I expected that it will receive an award. Obviously it was underestimated.
That fist picture looks like its main purpose
I think the chair is very cool. I would definately get one.
Nice post
How Cool is that……….
MUST GET ME ONE!
I love it!
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Kris (and anyone else): I had trouble finding where this retails, so if you find a link or any info at all, please do pass it on. It’s such a brilliant, yet no-brainer design that makes too much sense not to be in just about every living room in the world, ha.