Heine: More Möbius than Möbel

Heine PSD
Wow, who knew M.C. Escher designed furniture?

Props to Elyia! Original is here!
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66 comments:

Karla said...

Love that joke. :)

Mandy said...

AHH MY EYES

mycintosh said...

Actually, it's pretty darn cool :D

Arvin Bautista said...

I don't even get the point of making this edit... did they want the chair to be more visible in the photo? you could've potentially moved the entire chair over.

Laura Dotson-Thomson said...

Maybe the desk is actually mounted on the wall.. and the chair's leg hooks around... oh, I give up. It's hurting my head.

Alejandro Morán said...

My girlfriend can't seat on that.

Laura Dotson-Thomson said...

Arvin, I'm guessing the chair was in front of the desk, the latter of which they are trying to sell and don't want to obscure your view, so they just edited the leg using the other one in front.

X-TAC said...

Das ist ja geil :-)

DanH said...

nope that's just brilliant.

Roman Iazaroff said...

My chair can do that.

Nazario said...

It may be a PSD but it's still a keeper! Are there any artists/designers that do pics like that on purpose?

WDI said...

There I was thinking that Escher references were restricted to the commentariat. Ah well, justified in this case I suppose.

scascot said...

Straight from the craftsmen in Ry'leh, guaranteed to warp your sense of perspective. Or Euclidian geometry. Or something.

Eric said...

My girlfriend's chair can do that.

tome said...

This increases my desire to buy this furniture exponentially. The designer is a genius and should be given a raise!

PinkPanthress said...

Ah, dear Goddess! 8D
My eyes!!!

Featuring next week Fractalic Furniture!

Philangelus said...

Well, at least my kid would have an excuse for not doing his homework.

"But MOOOOOOM! The chair is inhabiting an extra dimension or something!"
"Quit whining and do your math."
"I can't! The paper got sucked into a rift in the space-time cointuum or something--OH MY GOD!!!"

Dr. Fox said...

I was thinking Magritte rather than Escher.

db said...

ROFL
The original website now shows the self-same desk, magically transformed to white (note same items in shelves etc), chair and background contoured out and the vase rudely guillotined off the top

Gridlock said...

db;

Click ANSICHT and it's the 3rd photo down - so the cruelly decapitated vase you note is in fact a little PSD all of its own.

Adam said...

You can also find the original image via the ZOOM button.

Andrew A. Gill said...

I gotta say, I don't think it's a disaster; I think it's awesome! It's unintentional, surely, and someone feels bad about the mistake, but they shouldn't.

Also, this looks very similar to a Necker Cube

Kathy said...

I think it's called "Crazy Chairs".

FG reference :)

db said...

gridlock- got it..

In the trade, this new sort of desk is know as a 'chameleon'.. you take it home and it changes color to match your personal decor ;-)

Jakob Zetterstrom said...

Yes, the white desk photo version on the website, with the chair in its expected position in front of the desk, looks so much more shopped and plain unnatural than this cherry-colored time-space fabric-warped kind... mind you, according to the website, the white solid-state physics desk is available for immediate delivery, but the cherry, multi-dimensional one takes nine weeks. Reasonable I suppose.

vokaris said...

It looks like they had everything staged as white on white, then photoshopped different colors for the desk, chair, floor and wall. Zooming on the first image reveals the clipping paths. I think they shot themselves in the foot when they copy/pasted the leg without properly masking it. This is a link showing the two images perfectly aligned

Matteo said...

Fantastic! :D

Matteo said...

I suppose they didn't use the other anterior leg, but the rear one. And there's also a pretty strange shadow on the drawer, like they had to remove something. But if it wasn't for the Escher chair, it should be a quite good work... :)

The WebMacheter said...

Oh man this is so cool... I think is harder to pull this off than actually making it right.

11011110 said...

Does any of this actually exist or is it all just a collection of computer models that they composited together in the wrong order? That is, is it a photo disaster or a raytracing disaster?

PoCoLoco said...

whoever assembled this furniture obviously DIDN'T follow the instructions.

Terrence said...

One word: Escher.

Jakob Zetterstrom said...

Since EVERYONE seems to like this pic as much as I do, I feel obliged to provide the Mandatory Nitpicking myself: The shadow on the drawer Matteo mentions is no problem (it's from the back of the chair), but the reflections of the cherry desk legs ARE a bit too obviously white against that floor...

Other than that, it's a fine rendition of a piece of furniture they obviously didn't have access to, where they improved the whole room as well as the desk from the dull, drab 'real' photo. Photoshop Success - I'd do it! :p

Yakov said...

oh my mask

yitz said...

I hope my girlfriend can do that.

weekwaster said...

Now, that's what I'm talking about. This is some seriously shoddy editing. Absolutely beautiful.

adler said...

this is no Photoshop Disaster, this is clearly a carpentry disaster, this page used to be good now it shows bad furniture blah blah blah unsubscriberibing.

ewaffle said...

When the vase was chopped off leaving the stub (is that what is left from a decapitated vase) it looks as if the moulding on the back of the desk got whacked a bit also.

orosganos said...

I see someone had issues assembling their IKEA buys...

Amy said...

Oh my eyes... it hurts...

Waldobaby said...

Amy said... "I came to this website to observe photoshop disasters! ... There are other places to go for content like this but I liked your format. Now, it is no longer worth it."

Missed us?

Gridlock said...

"Insert tab B into Slot C, making sure you use the 8th dimension"

myxstew said...

Hmmm...
The lower half of the chair's leg is painted on the floor, right? As is its reflection and shadow. I've seen street drawing artists mess with your perception like this. Maybe one of them preferred to work indoors? Clever and well done work it is. Not a PSD.

Anna said...

it's kinda sweet :)))) I like it :)))

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Photoxris said...

Bravo Kathy, spot on!

wv: enesseni

Miranda said...

Zoom-Escher! Good lord, look at that for a while and you'll have a migraine!

Martin said...

German creativity... haha, that's cool :-)

Taylor said...

It's like that impossible box.

Jane said...

What? Haven't you ever seen a chair doing the hokey-pokey?

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The Shitty Astrologer said...

LOLz...it looks an extra appendage! Awful photo editing and heads probably rolled over this one...

rkoch said...

Es schmerzt meinen Augen. It makes my eyes hurt.

FxFarlakes said...

"wir haben es nicht gewusst"

wv: fines...WOOOOHAAAAAAAA,the fines furniture in Deutschland!

Garett said...

I think the chair just lost a contact lens and is feeling around for it.

Fanboy Wife said...

It hurts my brain!

ZaphodQB said...

Did ya'll see this mentioned here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/11/photoshop-20-years-old-verb

pjs said...

Great explanation offered by vokaris and his link. Nice work vokaris!

shrimpy said...

lol, ahhhhhhhh, make it go away!!!
If they ever make furniture that can actually do this let me know, I want such a chair to scare people out of their minds, haha.

JackTheWelshman said...

I'm going up the stairs, I'm going down the stairs, I'm going up the stairs, I'm going down the stairs, I'm going up the sideways stairs.

Cannot compute

bembel said...

Wie mit einer Kreditkartenwerbung zu sagen...Das Schränkchen: 50,00 €...das Foto: unbezahlbar.

cojocarescu said...

Himmel Herrgott! Möbel hervorragender Katastrophe!

stanshan said...

I would love to have that chair and table. Would be kinda hard to sit down tho'

wicca said...

I cannot believe how they print this before chechking something lie that..
Funny :)
And I love your blog

mgabrys said...

According to the website, the white solid-state physics desk is available for immediate delivery, but the cherry, multi-dimensional one takes nine weeks.

Reasonable I suppose.

mgabrys said...

According to the website, the white solid-state physics desk is available for immediate delivery, but the cherry, multi-dimensional one takes nine weeks.

Reasonable I suppose.