Scary Ghost Chairs

When Kartell and Philippe Starck joined forces to reinvent the Louis XVI chair, mod lovers cheered. Yes, pairing the chair down “to an essential form and boldly reinterpreting it in plastic” was innovative, but who suggested the “themes”? Absolutely frightening. I saw the “child” chair at a favorite local decor store, and I feared for my camera. There was a creepy child staring at me from the back of the chair; I couldn’t post it–it was too awful. And what’s worse, there are three other theme options: Chinese checker (shown), bear, or mask. Who wants to sit with that? Especially at $425 a pop.