Human furniture is

furniture Furniture refers to movable objects intended to support various human activities such as seating (e.g., stools, chairs, and sofas), eating (tables), storing items, eating and/or working with an item, and sleeping (e.g., beds and hammocks). Fu ...

in which a person's body is used as a tray, foot stool, chair, table, cabinet or other item. In some cases a sculpture of a human body is used instead. Examples of human furniture have appeared in

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. Forniphilia is the practice of creating human furniture in fetish photography and

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Art

A model used as human furniture may be nude or semi-nude to add to the

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or aesthetic appeal. A classic example of the depiction of human furniture as art is the set of three sculptures ''Hatstand'', ''Table'' and ''Chair'' made in 1969 by British pop artist

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which show semi-naked

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in the roles of furniture. Allen Jones' artwork was the subject of a feminist protest when it was auctioned at

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in 2012. Norwegian artist

Bjarne Melgaard Bjarne Melgaard (born 9 September 1967) is a Norwegian artist based in New York City. He has been described as "one of Norway's most important artists" and, following the 2014 publicity about his sculpture ''Chair'', "the most famous Norwegian arti ...

created a sculpture called ''Chair'' which has the same shape as the Allen Jones' chair but depicts a black woman. In 2014 art collector

Dasha Zhukova Darya "Dasha" Alexandrovna Zhukova (russian: Дарья "Даша" Александровна Жукова; born 8 June 1981) is a Russian-American art collector, businesswoman, magazine editor, and socialite. She is the founder of the Garage M ...

, the partner of Russian billionaire

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, caused controversy by appearing in a photograph sitting on Melgaard's chair. Zhukova apologized for the photograph saying that she "utterly abhor racism, and would like to apologise to anyone who has been offended by this image". The Japanese fetish artist

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depicted voluptuous women, who dominated and used men as human furniture.

Bondage

The term ''forniphilia'' was coined by bondage artist

Jeff Gord Jeffrey E. Owen (5 May 1946 - 3 September 2013), better known by his alias Jeff Gord, was a bondage artist and photographer.Ashley Hames, ''Sin Cities'', Tonto Books, 2008, , pp. 184–188 who specialized in the forniphilia subgenre, a form of ...

Ashley Hames, ''Sin Cities'', Tonto Books, 2008, , pp. 184–188 who specialized in the subgenre and maintained the website "House of Gord" on the subject. Forniphilia as a form of bondage usually involves the subject being tightly bound and expected to stay immobile for a prolonged period. Gord said that the maximum period he used depended on the bondage techniques involved but it did not generally exceed two hours. Gord also warned that the dangers inherent in fornophilia meant that it should only be carried out by experts. Gord used gags in some of his creations. A

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is a type of gag that has the primary purpose of

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erotic humiliation Erotic humiliation is consensual psychological humiliation performed in order to produce erotic excitement or sexual arousal. This can be for either the person(s) being humiliated and demeaned or the person(s) humiliating, or both. It is some ...

. Proper safety requires frequent checks of the submissive's well-being.

In fiction

The 1971 film ''

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'' includes a scene of a gang sitting in the Korova Milk Bar, which is furnished with tables shaped like naked women. In Episode 7 of the 2021

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Original

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Drama, ''

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'', the anonymous VIPs invited to watch the show's

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are surrounded by human furniture, which are seen wearing elaborate

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References

External links

House of Gord's forniphilia FAQ pageDecorative Girls – Human furniture picturesForniphilia (Human Furniture)
– British photographer and artist Alva Bernadine BDSM terminology Sexual roleplay Sculptures Bondage (BDSM) Paraphilias {{BDSM

Art

Bondage

In fiction

See also

References

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