A chair for hugging?

Sometimes, design comes up with brilliant solutions for problems in our homes that we'd long ignored - take, for example, the Magisso magnetic dishcloth holder that preserves your kitchen's sightlines without leaving your dishcloth in a soggy heap at the bottom of your sink.

Othertimes, it solves problems that I didn't know even existed.

Take the Hug Chair by Ilian Milinov (spotted on Twitter, original post here) - designed to make the simple act of having someone sit on your lap more comfortable - by keeping them from sitting in your lap at all. Instead, your loved one perches in near proximity on a separate raised seat.

Useful? Perhaps. Though obviously not as cuddly as the original. To be honest, to me, that extra seat is less about togetherness and more about being a perfect laptop perch - now there's a problem I did need solved.

Comments

[Melanie Mclean]

I'd love to make a comment on this hug chair." I love the stlye"!! It would be the bomb if you could have the luxury of comfort too. I hope the company can make a more comfortable line of this hug chair product. Thank you

[Sydney K.]

I agree that the idea of this chair could be helpful but I also see it as being not very realistic. People enjoy sitting of their loved ones laps, I think this takes away from the loving feeling one gets from the proximity and togetherness. If they reworked the idea to having it marketed as a chair with a laptop table I believe it would sell better. I for one would love to have a chair like this if that were the case.