Full confession: by day I work for the furniture manufacturer Blu Dot. The film above that documents the Real Good Experiment is wonderful. And I am not just saying that because I worked on it! Blu Dot (me included) dropped 25 Real Good chairs all over Manhattan last month. Some had GPS tracking. Along with creative firm Mono and film production house Supermarche, we followed and tracked the folks who grabbed the chairs from the street.
The film dives into the world of curb-mining. It is an art form here in NYC and proves the point that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
No, my headline and this entry isn’t a euphemism for those tastefully shaped furniture advertised in the back of lifestyle magazines to aid limber couplings. These actual benches and end tables spotted on a German blog (translation help anyone?) are created from recycled pommel horses typically used in men’s gymnastics. The distressed brown leather quality of these adds a warm flourish to a bar or bachelor pad.
I’m not sure if this is what Fat Joe was referring to when he rapped “Do the roc-a-way, now lean back, lean back,” but as a guy who chronically tilts back in his chair, Deger Cengiz’s cleverly designed chair is filed under “Want” and “Need.” Maybe I can justify expensing it with the excuse that I think most optimally while leaning back in my chair. It’s available for $500 at Voos Furniture located in Brooklyn.
