If the findings of a new study from the University of South Carolina are true, and sitting too much can actually kill you, then it only makes sense that you’d want to live out your final moments in something more memorable than a La-Z-Boy. After the jump, we’ve rounded up 10 of the most interesting chairs that we could find — from an $11,000 seat that’s made out of sugar to a bathtub that has been reincarnated as a rocker. Click through to check them out, and let us know in the comments which one is your favorite.
Designer Pieter Brenner says this is “the first product of this size completely made out of sugar.” He also encourages customization: “The user can play an active part in the design with form and the dimensions of the object himself. The more consumed, the less mass left of the chair.” [via Core77]
There’s something decidedly chic and understated about Luigi Semeraro’s upcycled armchair, which he made by bonding over 200 empty spray paint cans together. At the same time, we can’t imagine that it’s very comfortable. [via designboom]
Tour by Rui Alves is a chair that should appeal to most bike fanatics. [via swissmiss]
Benjamin Rollins Caldwell of BRC Design recycles old computer components into original pieces of furniture; our favorite part of the Binary Chair 01, which was made using the frame of an old industrial printer, has to be the antenna. [via Oddity Central]
Joey Zeledon’s Coat Check Chair, which is constructed out of colorful clothes hangers, is intended to be a visual reminder to hang up your coat properly. [via Core77]
Germany-based designer Stephan Schulz’s grid-inspired Comfy Cargo Chair is like a hoarder’s dream come true; it requires “creative collaboration by the owner” — aka, you decide which of your personal belongings you’d like to proudly display. [via Core77]
The Hemp Chair by Werner Aisslinger — otherwise known as the Birkenstock of chairs — was developed with the support of German chemical company BASF. [via Curatedmag]
The reason that Israeli designer Tal Gur’s Daily Chair looks like one of your paper-mâché projects from middle school is the fact that it’s made from recycled newspapers. [via designboom]
Spun (Coriolis) by Thomas Heatherwick is “a functional chair constituted by a single profile rotated through 360 degrees which transforms the domestic seat into a beautifully rendered spinning top.” Does it make you think of Inception too? [via Design Milk]
Thanks to the Florence-based designers at FREeS.CO, one man’s bathtub becomes another man’s Rocking Sofa. [via notcot]