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All the fellow interior and furniture design aficionados, pull your seats closer. Also, those who enjoy the quirkier side of the internet. Today, we have a real treat for you!

Welcome to “Sorry For Design,” an Instagram page that labels itself as “visual arts” entertainment and you can’t argue. The account, which seems to be still growing, features an impressive collection of the most eccentric, plain weird and totally bizarro pieces of interior decor.

Think of a tarantula chair or a Jeff Goldblum-inspired bathroom: some of the designs shared here take insanity to an entirely new level. Below we selected the funniest and most eyebrow-raising examples, so enjoy and upvote your favorite ones as you go!

Bored Panda reached out to Katia Tolstykh, a Berlin-based interior and furniture designer, co-founder of OddinShape studio, and the creator behind the Sorry For Design Instagram account. Today, Tolstykh has 9 years of experience in design. In 2020, she along with her husband founded Odd In Shape, a multi-disciplinary design studio that works mainly in digital art, dreamscape interiors, and furniture design.

Tolstykh told us that Sorry For Design was created as a source of inspiration and fun. “Instagram, Pinterest, and other resources focus on beautiful and professional products, while a massive number of things made by non-professionals are left out of the equation,” Tolstykh explained.

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According to the interior and furniture designers, they may be funny, vulgar, naive, or disgusting, but they are all worthy of attention. “My account is a collection of projects by notable designers, and by ordinary people. All these projects are done with soul,” Tolstykh said.

When it comes to eccentric and unusual design, Tolstykh believes that it not only catches the eye but also “cheers people up.” Moreover, “everyone has their own reasons to like this design. It's hard to speak for everyone,” she said.

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Chris Yuen
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Clever until you realise it is shape of this.. https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/brazen-bull.html

P B Wilson
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm really glad others recognized the brazen bull. It's what I thought of at first glance. I could never eat anything out of that thing 😳

Jennifer Norton
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I wonder if people get the reference here..... if you don't look up iron bull torture!

Whitefox
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reading the comments, I do believe we have some cultured people around lol.

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hi myself, bi weirdo🇺🇦️‍‍
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You know there was a medieval torture device kinda like this, I’m pretty sure it was called the bronze bull. Don’t ask why I know this, I just know weirdly enough about medieval torture devices. You would be placed inside and the metal would be heated up until it was essentially a human oven.

David Brown
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Awesome grill with the added functionality as a torture device for the douchebag neighbors.

Daman dan
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ok seriously, the ones that compiled this post have np idea what the word "dreadful" means

Lexi dat me
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It looks like that greek i think torture bull were you would be burned to Death

유수연
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That kinda looks like a torture weapon called the brazen bull

izzy (pan)da
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i can't hate it! if that's ur thing more power to u cos it looks cool asf

FrillyDragon
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cool aside from the obvious inspiration. At least there's no "roaring" coming from it!

Patricia Stilwell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I hate everything that suggests cuteness (or whatever) about animals that we eat. Pigs named Pork Chop, dancing chicken or turkeys before they are cooked...the animals whose lives are taken for us to eat deserve the utmost respect in our care for them.

Louise Platiel
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm sorry but if someone hates that we can't be friends. That's awesome.

Anna Marie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They didn't skimp on the details 🤣 he's got beans and a frank!

Cat Chat
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, my first thought was it really doesn't need to look that realistic.

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Sophia Athene
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm a native Georgian in TX and I find this ridiculously awesome!!! Would totally BBQ on this while watching the Houston Texans play!!! Is that why I don't understand why it's on this list?

Cheryl Carter
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amazing! I would buy it! It even has the boy parts. lol I love that it has the smoke going out the nose.

Lene
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of that torture device they had back in ancient times. So nopes.... ain't gonna eat anything from this bull-bbq. 😬

Gypsy Lee
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They missed the market that would buy it just because the smoke came out the back end.

Mickie Shea
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We had several at our site and guests loved them. However, being all bulls they became territorial.

LadyGoodWrite
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I actually dig this. There are iron versions that that are spectacular.

Riley Quinn
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too on the nose for my tastes (pun not intended - or was it?).

Aboud Dweck
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is why I want to move out of my apartment to a house. I need this.

Terry Armstrong
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There must be something seriously wrong with me by BP standards...I'm up to number 7 and have LOVED every one!!

Shelley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The ancient Romans or Greeks had a similar torture device where a person was placed in a metal bull statue, fire started underneath and the person cooked alive, and their screams could be heard from the mouth. This was taken from that-very dark.

Aisha Murphy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That was a medieval torture method lmao I wouldn't eat out of that even if it looks cool....

Ashley Conover
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'm thinking of the bull torture device that was used in the past.

I_Kid_U_Not
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

An ancient torture device to cook your ribs in? I'm totally here for.it!

R Dennis
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've seen s few of these... also pigs. Based off the brazen bull.

Evan Krecsy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This actually reminds me of that brazen bull torture device. So while clever, it's pretty morbid.

Mary Bridget
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love it, I would never have one but I give credit to anyone that's that flamboyant that they would have one.

Chelsea Poole
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Cool? Though something about a cow cooking beef conjures images of digging your own grave...

Jennifer Walker
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I love it. Those grills and smokers are generally eyesores. This is a piece of art that cooks.

Sharon
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Too much like the ancient torture device where the screams of the person cooking inside came out the bulls mouth sounding like it's bellowing. No freaking thank you. Also, using a bull shape too cook beef, creepy to say the least. Does the grease drip out of his sheath?

Ozymandias73
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the bull in (2011) Red Riding Hood starring Amanda Seyfried.

Fergus Corgi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I saw a similar one at the store & my husband wouldn't let me buy it 😞

Keisha
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Brazing bull huh ? Don't get locked in there. It's beautiful though.

thepinkrobot
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of the brazen bull which was used to punish/execute ppl. They'd steam them alive inside a bull like this and the smoke would escape through the nostrils.

lara
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually, these are quite common [relatively speaking] in Texas.

Amanda
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Be cool if made it so the smoke came out the nostrils like in cartoons.

Kris “ADHD_Carrier” Dudoich
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I've actually seen one of these in person done in more of a copper color and they are very cool!

Oliver Coine
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That moment someone decided an Iron Bull was better as a grill instead of a torture device 🤣

Lucinda Speer
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Bronze Bull lives again! The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, or bull of Phalaris, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. According to Diodorus Siculus, recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica, Perilaus (or Perillus) of Athens invented and proposed it to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas, Sicily, as a new means of executing criminals.[2] The bull was said to be hollow and made entirely out of bronze with a door in one side.[3] According to legends, the brazen bull was designed in the form and size of an actual bull and had an acoustic apparatus that converted screams into the sound of a bull. The condemned were locked inside the device, and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death.

Jimmy Jones
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually this makes me think of a torture device I saw in a movie once

Bad Alchemy
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Clever, and historically referential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull

sussy_baka (they/them)
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tbh it reminds me of the old tourcher where they would coin people alive and when they scream it makes them sound like a bull so that’s why they made it look like a iron bull

Kitty Purry
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh no! I would totally lose my appetite thinking about those ppl who were roasted alive in the brazen bull back in medieval times.

J Smythe
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

After having seen the Brazen Bull in Immortals, this is a big no for me.

Luann Maria
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me of a torturing devise back in ancient Greece, The Brazon Bull, a huge metal hollow bull with a fire pit under it, prisoners would be locked in this bull and a fire built well.....you know the rest.

Auzi
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

it's as close to the Brazen bull as you could probably get in 21st century... stuff of nightmares

Julie Ann Al buzbeba
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Reminds me too much of that old torture device that they would cook people in that were still alive....no thanks...

Dunja Blackwell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how the Christians burned non-believers. They lit a fire underneath and the screams of the victims came out as powerful bellows.

Dunja Blackwell
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is how the Christians burned non-believers. They lit a fire underneath and the screams of the victims came out as bellows.

Shelby Minchew
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Is this in some way, cannibalistic? The owner was could be aiding and abetting??!

Henry Wiley
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Instantly thought of a certain Greek myth, it's a brutal one but IYKYK

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oooh, definitely. This would go down so well in many horsey places. I can just see people sitting on this bench to try on new riding roots. (Ooops, Iconic is correct, I meant 'boots', not 'roots'.)

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Moreover, the examples shared on Sorry For Design, Tolstykh argues, are really more about art and flamboyance than functional furniture. “They’re about the search for new forms, about scandal, about the rejection of common notions, about the expansion of the boundaries of the permitted and the familiar,” she explained and added that “This is art.”

In many ways, interior design is no different than fashion. It has its own trends, styles that change with years, seasons and people’s lifestyles. Various external influences are also to blame for fleeting interior design styles, social change and technological advancement included.

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Previously, our fellow Bored Panda writer Rokas spoke with an interior architect and lecturer at Vilnius College of Design named Judita Striukienė. According to her, nowadays eclectic solutions are on the rise; it's really popular to combine different interior design styles

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

That feeling when you're being interrogated under a bare lightbulb, but your interrogators got really cute with the decor.

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"In fact, it's quite rare to discover a place that is true to just one school. When you say a home was designed according to a certain style, you usually mean that some elements have an advantage in that place over the others or there is some sort of leitmotif throughout the entire space," the interior architect told Bored Panda.

On the other hand, there exist main aspects of good interior design that defy time and trends. According to Striukienė, living spaces have to be functional. Everything else is more or less decor, creating a certain mood," she said.

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This is why many interior designers start the design procedure by getting to really know the person or family who are going to live in a particular space. Their lifestyles, preferences, likes and dislikes all make up the end interior the designer comes up with.

Although most people would agree on what they call a bad or a good interior, that doesn’t mean that tacky and eccentric interiors don’t find their audience. On the contrary, it's no secret that the internet has been fascinated with quirky interiors, bizarre furniture, crazy McMansions and everything in between.

These unusual spaces seem to both transgress universal aesthetics on what we consider appealing and common sense, and show that there can also be no rules whatsoever.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Finally you can actually blame the chair for all those sounds you make when sitting down.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Spider Bed, Spider Bed / Groovy place to lay your head / Is it safe? Heaven knows / He's got radioactive toes / Hey you (who?) / Jump in the Spider Bed. (For the tune, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OP8keCbSVU)

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For the real chocolate lovers.

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Debbie Barnes
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This little pig's expression sums up this sofa.. That's a whole lot of sofa for one seat...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ah yes, this must have been made when humans had two knees per leg

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Looks like this would be uncomfortable. Bring cushions. Better yet, throw the cushions on the floor and sit there.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The wheels are a nice touch. They allow you and your partner to play some kind of agarian bumper-car game in the house.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

What is the porpoise of this? Who put it dolph-in the lobby?

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M Kawai
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Oh, the house with the melting chocolate bar bed needs this!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I guess this is the poor man’s version of the piano couch….

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I can only imagine what the rest of the house looks like! Oh, my head hurts!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As the tornado struck many residents feared the movie Sharknado was real

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Charly Armchair 1981.

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