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Aug 15 '11 by coffeecandle
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I need to find a way to make you think a chair is edible... Well this is hard.

I have a project where I need to advertise a 'fringe festival'.
Fringe: on the edge, not part of the mainstream, alternativem, not conservative, unconventional.

My topic is 'edible at ikea', or 'fringe edibles festival'. Imagine yourself at ikea, but finding out that the furniture is not, in fact, furniture, but delicious edible yumminess...

But how do I change your perceptions of a chair?

I am so stuck :|

Chipmnk on Aug 15 '11 at 7:49pm

Make it out of chocolate.

xiv on Aug 15 '11 at 7:51pm

Panpaati Furniture

coffeecandle on Aug 15 '11 at 7:51pm

yeah, I'll be back in 50 years when it's done ;)

reags on Aug 15 '11 at 7:53pm

good to see ya round again A!

xiv on Aug 15 '11 at 7:57pm

specific foods + pieces of furniture share the same traits...

'comfort food' + 'comfy' chair

comfortable, warm, over-sized, heavy, simple, etc.

Chipmnk on Aug 15 '11 at 7:57pm

Convince everyone wood is delicious.

d3d on Aug 15 '11 at 7:57pm

have a slice out of it like it's made of cake

aNonnymouse on Aug 15 '11 at 7:58pm

Or gingerbread. A gingerbread chair could be fun to build.

coffeecandle on Aug 15 '11 at 7:58pm

xiv on Aug 15 '11 at 7:57pm
specific foods + pieces of furniture share the same traits...
'comfort food' + 'comfy' chair
comfortable, warm, over-sized, heavy, simple, etc.
that's an interesting way to look at it, I'll play around with that!

xiv on Aug 15 '11 at 7:58pm

how functional/realistic does this piece of furniture need to be?

coffeecandle on Aug 15 '11 at 8:00pm

well it would be a piece of advertising for it, rather than the actual chair.
I kind of always imagined it to actually look like a real chair, and have a kind of 'wait.. what? that's made out of food? that's crazy!' reaction.

coffeecandle on Aug 15 '11 at 8:03pm

originally I was going to make a julia child+ikea lovechild recipecard, but that didn't work out. I'm now considering taking a more literal approach and just photographing someone eating a chair or something.

xiv on Aug 15 '11 at 8:04pm

chair made of mashed potato.

coffeecandle on Aug 15 '11 at 8:05pm

I think I'm going more towards a direction where I'll use a photo of a chair (or take one), so it's not the appearance of said chair that I'm changing, but the audiences perception of it, which is probably harder.

aNonnymouse on Aug 15 '11 at 8:06pm

What about beavers eating their own table? Or something.

aNonnymouse on Aug 15 '11 at 8:07pm

Oh. Photography. I guess the beaver thing could be photochopped.

xiv on Aug 15 '11 at 8:08pm

this would be pretty simple to do and photograph, but you could go crazy with the scene...

sugar cubes stacked to make an entire living room set.
you could paint the cubes with that cake decorating jelly stuff.

ivanrodero on Aug 15 '11 at 8:12pm

You could try to mimic the setting and composition of the photo to look like a decorated dish, something like this:

Something that reminds the viewer of taste and food mixed with furniture.

coffeecandle on Aug 15 '11 at 8:48pm

I need a coffee.

rossmat8 on Aug 15 '11 at 8:53pm

You should make a recliner out of waffles

coffeecandle on Aug 15 '11 at 9:24pm

The hard part is that I have a week to do it.
This is stressing me out! Waiting to talk to my lecturer now...

aNonnymouse on Aug 15 '11 at 10:04pm

Building a miniature living room out of sugar cubes or pretzels or something sounds like a cool idea.

Piscimancy on Aug 15 '11 at 10:04pm

When I was a little kid, my friends and I used to play "candy land" on the playground and would go around trying to eat all the playground equipment. One area was the lollipop forest, one was a gingerbread castle, etc. If you don't have to worry about the copyright, you could maybe lay down a colored path, have a deck of candyland movement cards, and play your way through the store.

Dadel-dom on Aug 15 '11 at 10:13pm

Maybe pasting a nutrition chart, like with servings and what not. Its simple and fast to do. Good luck.

coffeecandle on Aug 16 '11 at 12:43am

nutrition chart! good idea!

[+duracell-] on Aug 16 '11 at 12:50am

Take a POÄNG chair and dump a jar of tomato sauce on it.

It's-a spaghetti! eh?

quick-brown-fox on Aug 16 '11 at 2:26am

I like the idea of a family sitting around a table, knives and forks poised, but with a completely empty table, no food, plates or table mats, just the people and the cutlery. A dinner table dinner.
A pretty interesting project.

coffeecandle on Aug 16 '11 at 8:40am

Yeah my thought was a 1920-s looking dinner setting, but considering it's due on Friday (we had a whole week and a half to do this, condensed much) David told me to stop making things complicated for myself. I'll post what I've been doing in a sec. Thanks again for all the feedback :)

soloyo on Aug 16 '11 at 8:54am

People ususally sit down a t a table to eat but will not reach down and grab a chunk of chair to eat ( especially the part they are sitting on or a leg since it might cause them to fall ) I would focus on the armrest of the chair being edible, that way you can sit and enjoy the chair without too much worries.

coffeecandle on Aug 16 '11 at 8:54am

coffeecandle on Aug 16 '11 at 8:55am

not done yet, of course, but gives you a bit of an idea of the direction I'm going in.

quick-brown-fox on Aug 16 '11 at 9:33am

A menu might be nice with some punny dishes on it. Spaghetti Carpet Armchair (carbonara), I'm sure there are a billion of similar puns.

coffeecandle on Aug 16 '11 at 8:47pm

haha yeah that would be pretty great

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