Artist Gives Life to Ordinary Lawn Chairs

How funny would it be to come across a hitchhiking lawn chair looking for a ride to the garbage dump? Thanks to designer Bert Leschner, we can all say we've seen this unusual, yet hilarious, visual. In his Monobloc series, the inventive artist produces a number of quirky creations out of ordinary lawn chairs. The affordable and lightweight seats are reworked to display a new and humorous sense of personality.

Using heat as his primary tool, Leschner manages to redesign the most commonly used plastic chairs into a cast of comical characters. They're anthropomorphized, transforming their armrests into arms with actual gripping hands. Rather than simply being a seat on a swing, the chair doubles as the swinger clutching onto the rope it's affixed to and going for a playful ride. There's even an instance in which the seat takes a seat!









Bert Leschner's blog
via [Beautiful/Decay]

Pinar

Pinar Noorata is the Managing Editor at My Modern Met. She is a writer, editor, and content creator based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned her BA in Film and Media Studies from CUNY Hunter College and is an alumni of the Center for Arts Education’s Career Development Program in NYC. She has worked at major TV, film, and publishing companies as well as other independent media businesses. When she isn’t writing, editing, or creating videos herself, Pinar enjoys watching movies, reading, crafting, drawing, and volunteering at her local animal shelter.
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