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Voluptuous 1970s Sofa From A French President’s Home Is Being Reissued In 2024

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A good chair is immensely valuable to a home setup, and our butt. We spend the better half of our day lounging on chairs, whether we’re working in our office, enjoying a delicious meal, or simply sitting and reading our favorite book. We cannot underestimate the power of a chair in our lives, and also the power it holds in bringing together a particular room. This piece of furniture needs to tick off a lot of checkboxes – it needs to be comfortable, and ergonomic, and should also perfectly suit our living or working space. And, a seating design you could consider is the Pumpkin Chair! French designer Pierre Paulin designed his iconic Pumpkin chair in the 1970s, and it has now been re-released by the furniture company Ligne Roset!

Designer: Pierre Paulin for Ligne Roset

The Pumpkin chair was created in 1971 for French President Georges Pompido’s private apartment in the Elysée Palace. He wanted an untraditional furniture design that would refresh the country’s design industry. Paulin designed the chair to feature a rounded shape, constructed by molded strips of wood wrapped in foam.

The chair’s chonky form brings to mind the image of a pumpkin, and the chair became a focal point of the President’s home. However, the originals of the chair are rarely found now, and Ligne Roset has been reproducing a new version since 2008. The company has maintained the chair’s organic and round shape, which provides the “ultimate lounging experience”.

“Easy on the eye with its round contours and expressive personality, it beckons one to sink into it and linger,” said Ligne Roset. The Pumpkin chair has an extraordinarily cozy aura to it, and it instantly invites you in, urging you to take a seat and let the stresses of your day fade away. It is designed to provide a much-needed break from your hectic workday. The Pumpkin series also includes a loveseat, sofa, ottoman, and swiveling armchair. The furniture design can be upholstered in fabric or leather, with colored wool to accompany it, creating a playful and whimsical seating solution.

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Giant 12-Foot Tall Pumpkin Headed Vine Skeleton Halloween Decoration

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Because what’s Halloween if not an opportunity to one-up all your neighbors with over-the-top decorations, this is the 12-ft Giant-Sized Inferno Pumpkin Skeleton with LifeEyes™ LCD Eyes available from Home Depot for $350. I can already imagine my wife asking what the $350 charge from Home Depot was and me lying and telling her it was for power tools. Matt from two doors down doesn’t stand a chance of out-Halloweening me this year!

The giant pumpkin-headed skeleton includes posable arms, a ribcage filled with a glowing flame effect, a fiery mouth, and LCD animated eyes that look around and stare at people passing by. Am I going to leave mine up year-round? For $350, you better believe I am, and I don’t care what the homeowner’s association has to say about it.

It goes without saying that if you have a 12-foot pumpkin king skeleton in your yard, you better be handing out full-size candy bars. Because I think we can all agree having a 12-foot Halloween decoration on your lawn but handing out candy corn or licorice is a recipe for getting your house toilet papered.

[via LaughingSquid]

Alien Xenomorph Trick-or-Treat Bucket: Now Gimme Some Candy!

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Halloween isn’t far off, so it doesn’t hurt to start shopping now before all of the good stuff is sold out. While your kids might already have ideas for costumes, I bet their trick-or-treat pumpkins aren’t being given the slightest thought. Give your kid the coolest candy collector ever with this awesome Alien xenomorph candy bucket from Super7.

While the SuperBuckets Alien Xenomorph would be most at home with a Ripley costume, it’s pretty awesome all on its own, as its creepy alien head and pearly choppers will scare your neighbors into tossing some extra candy into the bucket just to get you off their porch quicker. And I’m not talking about the crummy stuff like Necco wafers, raisins, or those butterscotch hard candies your granny tried to pawn off on you. This scary buckethead will be filled with the good stuff like Tootsie Pops, Reeses, Twix, and Snickers. It’s available from Entertainment Earth for $19.99.

The Best of NASA JPL’s Pumpkin Carving Contest 2018

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The engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs have a pumpkin carving contest each year, and the pumpkins the creative ideas these rocket scientists come up with run the gamut from pop culture to space themed. My favorite design this year is the E.T. pumpkin:

But I also like the or the one with a skull inside a pumpkin like an astronaut. It’s pretty morbid considering NASA puts men into space, but it is awesome. I totally fail to get the one of the white pumpkin eating a satellite. Feel free to explain that one.

Other pumpkins on hand included a family of colorful sharks, and a barfing Cookie Monster among others. Take a closer look at this year’s contest entries on the NASA JPL Flickr page.

[via Geek.com]

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Give You Pumpkins A Little Extra Bite With Fake Fangs

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If you’re worried that your pumpkin looks a little more goofy than intended now you can turn up the spook factor with razor sharp vampire-like teeth. They’re little pieces of plastic that, as you’d expect, and can be embedded into your pumpkin to make it look much scarier. They come with large, medium and small teeth, but mark my words, the smallest pumpkins with giant fangs will be the most nightmare-inducing.

They’re available on Etsy for $7 for 3 sets of teeth. But what do you do once Halloweens over, I guess you could always stick some teeth into your fruit bowl and have the orange look like it’s eating the banana, that’s pretty scary.

[ Etsy ]

ICYMI: Real-time drawing collaboration and sippable seawater

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Today on In Case You Missed It: Google introduced a new cloud-connected whiteboard called the Jamboard, which is made for collaboration with coworkers, then the finished doodle can be stored in Google Drive. Meanwhile the SAROS is a wave-powered...

BB-8 Jack-O’-Lantern: Happy Rolloween

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It’s that time of year where geeky artists everywhere turn pumpkins into characters from their favorite things. If ever there was a droid that was meant to be in pumpkin form, BB-8 is it, with it’s round body and head. Here’s the droid pumpkin in all its glory.

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This BB-8 jack-o’-lantern was carved by Magnetic Attitude and is illuminated from within by two separate light sources as well as a few flashing LEDs.

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If I had the talent, I would make one of these to display. It looks spectacular even if it isn’t very spooky. I want to say something about Edgar Allan Poe Dameron, but I won’t.

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