is a famous quote from a BBC program,
photographs factory-M/Twitter, the program was called Listen With Mother, it was the 'are you sitting comfortably' bit that I remember when I looked at this chair,
Koichi Hasegawa, the
founder and owner of factory-M, a Saitama-based store specializing in
semiprecious natural stones, told reporters that he came up with the idea for
the unusual-looking office chair while on a trip to the United States, whilst looking
for natural stones to bring home to Japan, he found this large L-shaped
piece of amethyst for sale, he immediately pictured it processed into a chair, and
decided to go ahead with the idea,
the amethyst had to have its pointy shards ground down to
make sitting on the stone safe, and as you can imagine it is not the lightest
of office chairs, the amethyst alone weighs in at 88 kilograms, and with the
metal frame included, the weight of the chair goes up to 99 kilograms, Koichi Hasegawa claims that dozens of individuals and
companies have expressed interest in acquiring it, and how much is perhaps the
most uncomfortable looking gem chair in the world? Yours for just 450,000 yen, at today's rate £2,837.00 or $3,432.10, if only it came with a cushion!
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