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Top 10 Fastest Birds on Earth
Did you know that the world’s fastest bird flies at a speed that’s faster than the running speed of a car? Due to their extraordinary shape and speed the following birds have made it to the top 10 list of the fastest ever flying birds of the world. 
1) Spine-tailed swift (170 km/hr):
Also known as the white-throated needletail, this bird can fly at a remarkable speed. This is probably a good thing as they spend most of their time in the air, never setting their feet on the ground willingly. Central Asia and Southern Siberia are the areas where this species is mostly found although being migratory in nature, they head south in the winter to the Indian subcontinent, Australia and Southeast Asia.
2) Frigate bird (153 km/hr):
These birds are actually a family, fregatidae, of seabirds consisting of 5 species. They are also known as Pirate birds or Man of War birds. One interesting thing to notice about this bird is that their duration of prenatal care is longest of that of any bird. Majority of their population is found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as in the South Atlantic.
3) Spur-winged goose (142 km/hr): A large bird in the family Anatidae, this bird is also known as the world’s biggest ‘goose’ ranging in weight from 4-6.8kg. It is mainly located in the wetlands throughout sub-Saharan Africa. It was one of the first sub-Saharan species known to science.
4) Red-breasted merganser (129 km/hr):
Also referred to as the mergus serrator or saw-bill because of it’s long serrated beak, this flying duck is widely spread over Europe, Asia, Greenland and North America. They migrate south during the winter.
5) White-rumped swift (124km/hr) : This bird is a small swift. Swifts have very short legs that they use only for clinging to vertical surfaces. These species usually inhabit man-made structures such as buildings and bridges as its territory is usually dictated by its hosts. They mainly occur in Spain, Morroco and sub Saharan country.
6) Canvasback Duck (120 km/hr): The canvasback duck is a large diving duck that is found in North America. It is the largest of the North American diving ducks ranging from 48 cms to 56 cms. They migrate to warmer climates during the winter flying in V-shaped formations.
7) Eider Duck (113 km/hr): Also known as the common eider, it is the largest duck found in Europe and North America. They are spread over the northern part of Europe, North America and Eastern Siberia, mainly in the coastal regions. Eiders are highly sociable and usually stay close inshore.
8) Teal (109 km/hr):
The Eurasian teal or Common teal is a common duck that breeds in temperate Eurasia and migrates south during the winter. It is called just ‘teal’ as it is the smallest dabbling duck within its range. Outside the breeding season, it is a highly gregarious duck and can form large flocks.
9) Mallard (105 km/hr) : These species are usually known as wild ducks and are found America, Europe, Asia, North Africa, New Zealand and a part of Australia as well. The Mallard is the ancestor of most domestic ducks and is a migratory bird.
10) Pintail ( 105 km/hr) : The pintail has a widely spread population in the northern areas of Europe, Asia and North America. It is a migratory bird which flies south of its breeding range in the winter, towards the equator. They have also earned the nickname ‘greyhound of the air’ as they are long, slender ducks with long, narrow wings.
Extreme Sand Sculpting! The Sultans of Sand
You saw that perfect sandcastle in your dream - it was reaching to heavens, rising from the surf's mist. It was magnificent and yet so eminently perishable. Welcome the Sultans (and wizards) of sand art to make all that a reality - and more, with incredible detail, creativity and imagination. 
 (Melbourne, Australia - love these skyscrapers in the background - perhaps also "sand castles" of some sort...)There are many fantastic sand art showcases / competitions around the world: held in China, Spain, Brazil, Canada (the ultimate "Tournament of Champions" in Harrison Hot Springs, British Colombia), Florida, Oregon, Texas, Virginia... featuring such undisputed masters like Amazin Walter, Rich Varano (The Sultan of Sand), William Lloyd, Carl Jarra and Suzzane Altamare compete alongside artists from all over the world. Perhaps the most sophisticated fairy tale sculpture in recent memoryToo bad they are made out of sand, and so will be impossible to preserve, other than in pictures. The traditional fantasy themes - sand castles, dragons, maidens and other fairy tale details - are brought to life so lovingly and with such abundance of detail that it simply transcends the genre:   (images credit: Amazin Walter)This is how it's done... slowly and with feeling (imagine sculpting every single scale on that dragon) -  William Lloyd works on the baby dragon"The Princess Power" by Rich Varano:  (images credit: Amazin Walter)Get eaten up by the dragon:   (image credit: Amazin Walter)Psychedelic Swirls:  (sculpture by Carl Jara and Suzzane Altamare, image credit: Amazin Walter) Time Mirror: on the left is "looking into the past", on the right - "looking into the future"-  A life of the mundane, rendered in sandBedroom Scene (a little abrasive relationship... ok, I will stop my puns here)  Get yourself a couch to sleep on in the worst case -  A perfect family to inhabit all this sand real estate -   (image credit: sandwizard)Sand people need to go to the sand outhouses to do their sand business... "Occupied!" -  (image credit: Amazin Walter)I hope this sand figure is not nude:  Nostalgia for winter... Blasphemy! -  If he tries to show accurate time, he'll be here sculpting all night:  Pushing the borders into surrealism"The Church, The Steeple and all the People" by John Gowdy and Michael Velling:  (images credit: Amazin Walter)This is perhaps a commentary on the urban sprawl:  (image credit: Amazin Walter)The weirdness never ends... -  The images above & below are from the sand art shows in Japan, and in Durham, NC, USA.  Sand sculptures in Lommel, Belgium:  (image credit: Tine Verheyden)Something gruesome happened here:  (image credit: Amazin Walter)"The End of the Knight" tells an equally sad story:  (image credit: Amazin Walter)Horror is a common theme (work of Dan Doubleday and Meredith Corson) -  (image credit: Dan Doubleday and Meredith Corson) (image credit: Tine Verheyden)  The Squids! The Squids! Give us the squids -  (image credit: wired) "The Arms Race" -     (images credit: rense.com)"Goaaaal!" by Gianni Schimarini - via:  Trust Chinese to make creepy sand sculptures for the sake of propaganda (more info) -  But this one is much better:  (sculpture by Edith Van de Watering "Nederland")Even if you don't possess sculpting skills you can still impress the beach crowd. There is definitely "more than meets the eye" here -  (sent in by Angeline Stewart)Who's worshiping what? -  Well, of course, the problem with even the mightiest of sand sculptures... there are going to be blown in the wind... smothered by waves... no trace will be left of them... "The dust you are, to dust you will return!" -  (image credit: Devrim Gür
Unusual and Spectacular CastlesCastles That Will Inspire and Haunt You
Arguably born the day that villagers -- and the people who profited off them -- decided that wood wasn’t strong enough to keep them safe, castles quickly became more than just edifices dedicated to security. Instead of repelling borders, real or imaginary, castles became THE status symbol of status symbols. Monuments to bravado, they were stone and mortal proclamations to the age-old idea that "mine is bigger than yours." 
Pierrefonds - picture-postcard example of a castleIf you want an picture-postcard example of a castle, you don’t have to go anywhere but the Château de Pierrefonds in France. Although it may have started out as a structure designed to keep some folks out and others safely in, it was later partially sugar frosted by none other than Napoleon the 3rd, who was shooting for a true nobility status symbol: a iced cake that no one but the very rich and very privileged could eat.  (image credit: Frédéric Lavaux)Pierrefonds is still a beautiful place, even if its fortifications were overly gilded –- or maybe because of it. It’s no wonder it's used to this day when central casting gets a call for a classic castle.  (photos by Ralph Gant and Benoit Stordeur, see more)When fairy tale jumps from a landscape and hits you between the eyesIf you want a real Disney, fairy-tale, and totally insane castle, you have to visit the residence of one totally insane German king, namely Ludwig II of Bavaria. Look up gaudy in the dictionary and there’s a picture of his castle: Neuschwanstein ("The New Swan Rock").   Neuschwanstein Castle, gracing ten million over-saturated postcards and jigsaw puzzles, (image credits unknown)Glitzed and filigreed, Neuschwanstein is like Ludwig’s twisted brain turned inside out and realized in stone and brick. It is also sublime and splendid, over-the-top and strangely fragile - all at the same time. We are going to devote a special article to it, truly a place not of this world.  photos by Avi AbramsMonstrous chandelier? Check. Room made to look like a cavern? It’s there. Entire rooms dedicated to Wagner (with whom Ludwig was obsessed)? Absolutely. It’s all there, larger and more ornate than any life … unless, of course, you were the King of Bavaria.  photos by Avi AbramsThe Coral Castle - Nobody knows how it was builtOne of my favorite castles, though, wasn’t the dream of a king realized in stone and mortar. Spurned at the altar back in his native Latvia, Edward Leedskalnin took his disappointment, and a case of tuberculosis, to Florida in 1923. There, in the land of oranges and sunshine, Leedskalnin began to build his very own castle, one he worked on until his death in 1951 (more info)  (image credit: sarahmizoo) (images credit: Jim)It’s still there and definitely worth seeing. It might not have the polish of Pierrefonds or the glimmer of Neuschwanstein, but Rock Gate Park, as he called it, is still a striking sight: monstrous slabs of coral skillfully balanced and beautifully positioned, all of them assembled without reinforcement or mortar. He spent over 28 years building the Coral Castle, refusing to allow anyone to view while he worked.  (The Throne Room, supposed to depict the Moon and the planets - photo by Claudia Domenig)Leedskalnin’s construction genius is legendary. No one quite understands how he built his castle and then moved it ten miles away in 1936. Some people think he used a kind of perpetual motion machine or mystical methods to move his several-ton blocks. Whatever the means, his Coral Castle, is still a magnificent achievement -– the sublime result of his own two hands, his incredible inventiveness, and a tragically broken heart. Portmeirion: a surreal village in Gwynedd, WalesStepping away from literal castles, but staying within the theme of very special men and the homes they created, one of the most beautiful is one you might not know the name of but one you’d recognize immediately. All I need to write is "You are Number 6."  (image credit: Richard Hagen)Located in Wales, Portmeirion was created by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis in 1925 (though some of it wasn’t finished until 1975). Although Sir Williams-Ellis wasn’t a king, he was obviously knighted, and certainly had help with his remarkable residence. Portmeirion deserves to stand with Ludwig’s vision of Germanic paradise and Leedskalnin’s eccentric coral castle because of its unique, and spectacularly beautiful, vision.  (image credit: Gavin D. J. Harper)Williams-Ellis was so dedicated to preserving the tranquil elegance of Portmeirion that the filming location of Patrick McGoohan’s "The Prisoner" wasn’t revealed until the final episode of the series. Even with the careful hiding of the village’s identity, anyone who knew anything about architecture would have recognized the Williams-Ellis’s pearl-white cottages and the legendary green dome where, in "The Prisoner", the village’s rotating Number 2s had their office.  (image credit: Matt Buck)Portmeirion is truly a beautiful place and completely unspoiled by its television appearance. It remains today just as Williams-Ellis intended it to be: a tranquil village with a tasteful dusting of nostalgia. The Postman's Palace - another single-handedly built castleFerdinand Cheval has imagined his "Ideal Palace" and simply went on to built it - after all, why not? He spent 33 years with this project (located in the village of Hauterives in the picturesque Drôme region of Southern France) - but the results are nothing less than stunning:   (photos by Emmanuel Georges, Eric Devlies, Francerama)Initially considered "the village idiot", he was suddenly hailed as a genius and a celebrity in France, upon completion of this intricate affair. But is it the "Ideal Palace"? Everyone seems to have a different opinion. More info and images are on this page. Whether it's the gussied-up fortresses like Pierrefonds, the gilded dreams of a mad king like Neuschwanstein, the eccentric genius of Leedskalnin and his Coral Castle, or the whimsical grace of Williams-Ellis’s Portmeirion and Ferdinand Cheval's Palace, a man’s home can really be his castle. More Fantastic Castles, to Visit and to Think About (Wistfully)Eltz Castle, Germany: another fairy-tale location, this time completely surrounded (and in certain degree concealed) by the forest:  (image credit: frizztext, see more)Germany (just like Switzerland and Austria) has many enchanting castles, big and small -  Castle-like mansion in Arnsberg and a large Buerresheim Castle, photos by frizztextThe stretch of Rhein between Cologne and Mainz has the especially high concentration of great fortresses, presiding over the quaint riverside villages:  This is a great site listing all the castlesEgeskov Castle, Denmark:  (image credit: Malene Thyssen)Eastern Europe abounds in awesome castles. This is for example, Castle in Moszna, Poland:  Check out the sinister door handle from the Dracula's Bran Castle on the bottom right. Towers emerging from the mist in the photo below: this is Bragança, a walled town in northern Portugal. Very evocative image on the bottom left is Le Chateau de Nyon in Nyon, Switzerland:  (originals unknown)The Chittorgarh Fort in India. This pool was often the only source of water during the numerous sieges by Mughal Emperors:  (image via)Nestled in High Places:The way to the Guaita Fortress in San Marino (more info) -  Try not to think of "Myst" and "Riven" while looking at the above picture... Here is the high cliff on which the fortress stands:  (image credit: Ricardo André Frantz)Overlooking the Echaz Valley and the storybook village below, often shrouded in fog, Lichtenstein Castle comes close to being the perfect castle in Europe.  (image credit: Andreas Tille)The Abandoned Castle in Rural ItalyOh yes, still unclaimed by some luxury developer, nor touched by multi-million renovation... hiding in a valley in a tangled forest: Castello di Zena: (here is a Google Earth location, but don't set your hopes too high - this is a guarded private property)  (image credit: cyberbiscottato)A mystery. Falling to pieces. Splendor in the grass. A View That Launched 10,000 Epic Fantasy BooksAnother feature of fortified high places is the splendid view they often afford. We'd like to open up a sort of competition: The Best View From a Castle, but the winner already easily comes to mind - and it's the Neuschwanstein's Castle, again. The panorama of the towering Alps and a nestled gem of the lake, Alpsee, is enough to make you sigh and close your eyes... dreaming.  Photo by Avi AbramsThe ultimate castle, that was ever designed to grace the face of the EarthKing Ludwig, again. The planned Falkenstein - truly THE Lost Castle. The one that he was all set to build - but for the financial (and mental) meltdown he suffered.  Christian Jank's first High Gothic design for Falkenstein, 1883.
( 42 Votes ) So colorful, so fragrant; you’re lured as if they’re sirens! One can’t really help but stop and smell the roses or swoon over the robust bright yellows and eye catching lavender and purples. Who wouldn’t want to treat themselves a stem or two to brighten up their spaces and to provide the connection with nature that is often lost! And if not, you’re yet to see Bloemenmarkt-one of the largest flower markets of the world. From bouquets that will capture your gaze and heart to multicolored cacti, this market has basically everything! 
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The Bloemenmarkt is the world's only floating flower market.It was established founded in 1862 and is situated in Amsterdam,Netherlands on Singel canal in between Muntplein and Koningsplein. Currently there are 15 florist shops and garden shops alongwith some souvenir gift stores.This market supplies flowers to the central Amsterdam. It has since developed into the best-known flower market of Holland.It is also one of the favourite tourist spots in Amsterdam. 
 
The Singel flower market is one of the most colorful and fragrant places of interest of Amsterdam in all four seasons. It is unique in that the merchandise is displayed on floating barges. This is a relic from the days when the flowers and plants sold at this market were shipped in from the horticultural areas around the city by barges. Fresh flowers are still brought in every day; by vans, however, and no longer by boat. 
 
World's Most Dangerous AirportsThe most dangerous airports in the world, from offshore airports in japan to ice covered ones in Antartica to an airport which has a road that runs through it in Gibraltar! 
Lukla Airport Nepal Since Lukla Nepal is the place most people start their Mount Everest trek, this Himalayan strip gets quite a bit of traffic--mostly to and from Kathmandu.
Sirens inform folks for miles when an airplane is landing here, and as you would suspect, only helicopters and Twin Otter type planes can handle the 2,000 foot, uphill runway that is fenced off at the end, to protect you from the edge of a mountain cliff. 
 Kansai International AirportOsaka, Japan 
Land is a scarce resource in Japan, so engineers headed roughly 3 miles offshore into Osaka Bay to build this colossal structure. Work on the manmade island started in 1987, and by 1994 jumbo jets were touching down. Travelers can get from the airport to the main island of Honshu via car, railroad or even a high-speed ferry. Gibraltar Airport 
Between Morocco and Spain sits the tiny British territory of Gibraltar. Construction of the airport dates back to World War II, and it continues to serve as a base for the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force, though commercial flights land on a daily basis. Madeira International AirportMadeira, Portugal 
Madeira is a small island far off the coast of Portugal, which makes an airport that is capable of landing commercial-size aircraft vital to its development. This airport's original runway was only about 5000 feet long, posing a huge risk to even the most experienced pilots and limiting imports and tourism. Ice RunwayAntarctica 
The Ice Runway is one of three major airstrips used to haul supplies and researchers to Antarctica's McMurdo Station. As its name implies, there are no paved runways here—just long stretches of ice and snow that are meticulously groomed. There is no shortage of space on the Ice Runway, so super-size aircraft like the C-130 Hercules and the C-17 Globemaster III can land with relative ease. The real challenge is making sure that the weight of the aircraft and cargo doesn't bust the ice or get the plane stuck in soft snow. As the ice of the runway begins to break up, planes are redirected to Pegasus Field or Williams Field, the two other airstrips servicing the continent. Congonhas AirportSao Paulo, Brazil 
Most major cities have an airport, but rarely are they built just 5 miles from the city center, especially in metropolises like Sao Paulo. Congonhas' close proximity to downtown can be attributed in part to the fact that it was completed in 1936, with the city experiencing rapid development in the following decades. Courchevel International AirportCourchevel, France 
Getting to the iconic ski resort of Courchevel requires navigating the formidable French Alps before making a hair-raising landing at Courchevel International Airport. The runway is about 1700 feet long, but the real surprise is the large hill toward the middle of the strip. Princess Juliana International AirportSimpson Bay, Saint Maarten 
Nothing says fun in the sun like roaring engines and the smell of jet exhaust. Landing on this Caribbean island forces pilots to fly over a small strip of beach, clear a decent-size fence and pass over a road just before hitting the runway. Svalbard AirportSvalbard, Norway
Top 10 Creative Bed Designs
What we all want is a bed that is comfortable enough to sleep in. However, what is even better is if the bed has personality. Following are the coolest and most creative beds designs ever!
1) Magnetic floating bed
This super cool bed is worth a whopping $1.53 million. It has been designed by Dutchman Janjaap Ruijssenaars and has enough magnets to keep 900 kilos floating in the air. It’s also fastened to the walls by four cables to ensure that the bed doesn’t float away due to hard wind or weird movements. 
2) Hamburger bed
This delicious hamburger bed was made by Kayla Kromer from scratch. The bed is 8’ in diameter and is about 3’ tall. This bed isn’t for sale anymore as it has found it’s home in the Hamburger Museum. However, till date it continues to have a strong facebook following.  3) Molecular bed
This unique bed is inspired by a molecular structure which is the basic form for all objects in the universe. The bed designed by Animi Causa and is made of 120 sofa balls covered with elastic fabric. 
4) Fantasy coach
This lavish bed has been handcrafted in England of wood and fiberglass and is a dream come true for all little girls. This magnificent oval-shaped piece is just over 6 feet in diameter and is worth $ 47,000.  5) Cosmovoide bed
This plush bed comes with a number of fascinating features such as hammock-like suspending springs, seven rainbow colored LEDs, a telephone and a DVD/Home theatre system with a TV at its foot. As if all this was not enough, its most important feature is the twin “electric relaxation bed framesâ€. All of this is worth $ 60,000. 
6) Quantum sleeper
This bed is also known as the “anti-terrorist†bed as it protects you from everything ranging from natural disasters to kidnappers by snugly sealing itself as you sleep. It also offers bulletproof ‘Saferoom’ protection along with optional telephone, DVD and CD players and microwave oven. All this protection at a price of $ 160,000 dollars. 
7) Private cloud
Designed by Manuel Kloker, the private cloud bed has a rocking frame for a bed that moves back and forth like a rocking chair. It costs about $ 6,800 depending on the size.  8) Coffin bed
This bed has been made especially for those people who want to want what it’s like to sleep in a coffin. It’s constructed out of solid pine with a removable top and bottom. Moreover, it is also decorated with a handmade metal cross and gothic pall bearer handles. All this will cost you a little over $ 4,000. 
9) Bookcase bed
The idea behind designing this bed is to create more space in a small room. The mattress converts into a bookcase by making it stand upright. Created by Karen Babel the bed has five storage shelves which are suspended in mid-air by a wall mounted frame. 
10) Illuminated bed
Designed by Philippe Boulet, this bed keeps on changing colours. You can wake up with your favourite colours by programming the lighting of the bed at the time of your choice. 
The Worlds Tallest Skyscraper - Burj Khalifa DubaiBurj Khalifa is a skyscraper in Dubai and the tallest man-made structure ever built, at 828 m. It was known as Burj Dubai prior to its inauguration. The price of office space real estate had reached US$4,000 per sq ft in 2009. Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010. 
The tower is designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, who also designed the Willis Tower (formerly the Sears Tower) in Chicago, Illinois and 1 World Trade Center in New York City, among numerous other famous high-rises. Construction began on 21 September 2004, with the exterior of the structure completed on 1 October 2009. The building officially opened on 4 January 2010. The total cost for the Burj Khalifa project was about US$1.5 billion.
The World's Most Creative ChairsThese are some of the worlds most creative and strangest chairs! From the ghost chair to the Obelisk Chairs and even chairs inspired by the female form! Enjoy these 20 most creative chairs!  This is a Ghost Chair collection by Design Drift. The plexiglass chairs have ghost-like forms inside them, created with laser technology. The ghost is a futuristic concept of a chair, 3-dimensionally captured within the boundaries of reality. It gives you a bit of a dramatic feeling: unbelievable, high-tech, but beautiful.
This oddity was designed by Allen Jones in 1969. Constructed of painted plastic and mixed media, if you want to get a closer look at it head over to the Tate Gallery in London.
Exhibit A is the 1960s Female Form Fiberglass Chair ($10,500), a chair that proliferates the animal-hide trend, and takes the classic Louis XV chair to a "sensual" level — kind of like a dirty version of Philippe Starck's Louis Ghost Chair.
Creative chairs by Osian Batyka-Williams. The tube chair is made from stainless steel tubes. The price? 3. 295 US dollars
A Mona Lisa portrait that can be transformed into a chair (or the other way around) is a total space saver. It acts as a chair, and when unused, you can flip it up and hang it on the wall to save space. Perfect for art lovers with small apartments. This concept is by Korean designer Kwang Hoo Lee, who turns chairs into works of art for a living.
Creative Mars and Venus chairs designed by Mahdi Naim.
This bizarre chair is not your usual chair design. This chair design called the Pelvis Rocking Chair would be a nice addition if you were a collector of chairs with unique designs.
Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Holly Palmer has designed this unique stool that looks like a giant tea cup.
The PrettyPretty seating series designed by Degana Kailjo are, according to the designer, “Pretty heads to sit on.†The PrettyPretty seating series is hand made out of horsetail hair. Due to the character of the material each piece in this limited edition series is unique; they are also signed and numbered.
I know it may look like a hairy dog, but this wonderful chair was presented in the Maison&Objet fair in Paris on September 2007 as a part of the Ecological trend. This "hairy chair" (or sculpture?) is made of very fine cut paper by the Architect/Designer Charles Kaisin from Brussels.
Little in the way of information is available concerning this rather hauntingly styled meat chair except to say that, the brainchild or Italian designer Simone Racheli's chair is made from plastic and finished to resemble a series of muscles and tendons.
Creative chair by designer Ania Wagner is made from sustainable wood and lined with a cultivated industrial felt.
The Polish design team razy2 made a chair that's built like a stack of sticky notes. The Q-Book is composed of sheets of paper, carefully cut, that are attached on one side. If you need something to write on, just tear off a sheet.
This would just freak me out if I saw it at someone's house.
Some restaurants change their cutlery as often as every nine months. The Cutlery Chair utilises these hard to recycle, unwanted cutlery pieces as building blocks to create truly unique pieces of functional furniture.
The panda chair was designed and created by Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana in a numbered and limited edition of 25 chairs.
This is how I want to go grocery shopping!
This anthropomorphic chair was designed by Sergio Gill. The funky chair which made it to the IWF Design Emphasis Competition resembles a reclining female figure. Gill used a software program that scanned the female body then translated it into another stylizing software program called AlphaCAM. Finally, Gill used a birch plywood model with a tung oil furniture finish.
The Obelisk Chairs is four powdered coated aluminum frame chairs with white cushions and a table which can stack into one piece made out of woven polyethylene. And yeah, it's cool, but how can they justify the $8,922 price tag? For that price the thing should be made out of uranium.
This is definitely the most risque in our series of weird furniture: The 4Legs. A self-described "provocative chair" by the Dutch designer Mario Philippona. Undoubtedly not for the faint-hearted, or for an average living room, though the designer's own description encourages it to be "used as a single piece to cheer up your living room" and claims to be "more comfortable than most designer dining chairs." Gives a new meaning to 'bums on seats'
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