It might make your skin crawl, but if you’re missing that human touch then this might just be the furniture for you.
British designer, Gigi Barker, has spent a considerable amount of time trying to replicate the exact feel of human flesh with her collection of chairs and footstools.
And sitting on one of these chairs is meant to be just like perching yourself atop a real mound of human fleshin particular, the stomach of an obese male.
Barker’s skin chair and skin stool set were created as part of a project called A Body of Skin, where she studied the ‘texture of skin and the shape of the body’, exploring ‘the intricate subtleties and varieties of the skin surface and the volume of the flesh’.
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Put your feet up: The handmade 'skin stool' and 'skin chair' is meant to recreate the sensation of sitting on a naked body
The fabric for her unique pieces is made from a ‘pheromone-impregnated silicone base’, which recreates the texture of human flesh and smells just like the aftershave worn by Barker’s male model.
Barker believes that when a customer’s skin comes into contact with the chair, a bond will be formed and she hopes the furniture will make people question the level of comfort they have in their own skin.
With a combined price-tag of £2,380 for the chair and stool, you might be questioning more than that, but it will certainly prove a talking point with visitors.
And make putting your feet up a very different experience.