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Balancing Act: Gravity-Defying Ball of Floating Furniture

Posted: 20 May 2012 12:00 PM PDT

[ Filed under More & in the Art of Design category ]

What if we were unable to discard our old furniture and, instead, were responsible for finding a place for it in our current living space?

Karen Ryan takes her inspiration for excess and waste – her barely-balanced chairs look ever more precarious with each addition, making the point all the more clearly.

If each tossed chair had to use the same footprint as your current seat, well, the end is obvious: eventually it will topple over on its side, be crushed under its own weight, and who knows what would happen to the furniture sitting below.