FH&CC Blog
After “Dear Architects” exploded in my face (I am still picking shrapnel out of my eyeballs, thank you), a chair design company called Emeco asked me to blog for them. I don’t really know anything about design. Seriously. I think finger puppets are good design because, uh, they are puppets that go on your finger. Like, oh sweet! Finger puppets! Here’s one that looks like a giraffe! Anyway Emeco didn’t seem to care. They basically asked me to make fun of them. So I said, uh, OK, yo momma so old she owes Jesus three dollars. And then they were like, uh no, not quite, why don’t you write about design? And I was like, oh ok. But yo momma really is old.
Emeco makes magical chairs from the FUTURE that are obviously handcrafted by aliens and unicorns, and a few are on display at MOMA and they are all sectioned off by a velvet rope and if you get too close someone yells at you. That’s how special these stupid chairs are. Anyway a new version of their site just launched, and you can peep it here. I’m under “collaborations” and the blog is called FH&CC. I’ll let you try and figure it out. I like that I am in the same category as Norman Foster and Phillipe Starck. That makes me laugh really hard. I mean really.
If they let you write for them again, I hope you will make fun of Adrian Van Hooydonk’s name.
I hope they paid you in chairs because holy mofo those prices! If I were to pay $1K for a chair, it better also convert into a full size bed, a two door fridge or a three speed vibrator because what’s the fun of surviving a six story fall if you can’t then follow that with a nap, a good beer or some quality alone time.
Hey Annie,
I’m totally with Sandy about those prices. Um, yeah, they’re ridiculous. It’d better be some kinda really nifty transformer. Who buys those anyway?
Hey, how’s your toe doing?
It was a pleasure reading your blog on emeco. Indeed you’re in the same class as foster. In the end you can’t refused getting involved with arcthiects in a way hahaha.
Damn Zombie Killjoy =p
You got asked to make fun of them? I want your job. Now. And why not see if my cousins survive being thrown out of a 6th story on an emeco chair? I’m sure the dog-walkers and joggers won’t mind.
Ranjit: I think I will do my own awesome tests with my Ikea chairs. See how well it stands up.
Sandy: Seriously. The chair better transform into a bigger apartment for me.
Tina: My toe sucks. It’s kind of like how when Andy dropped the TV on his foot, except I have no TV.
ThirskUK: I know I really love punishment, just like architects. The nice thing is that Emeco will receive the hate mail for the blog and not me, which is a nice change of pace.
Prink: I can totally throw your cousins out the window for sure. I don’t have joggers under my window because I face an alley, but I do have trash under my window. Wow I live in a dump.
Dear Annie
“dear architects” is attached on the board at the university where I attended my phd in architecture, in Italy, and now where I go only for hobby and for passion for culture because also after phd for architects there are no opportunities…
I don’t know nothing about you but you seems me nice at once. (I’ll read about you). And it’s incredible how a person out of the word of architecture can understand us so well…
the situation in Italy is the same, maybe worse…
so, dear annie, continue to write about us, just with your fine and amusing irony… maybe I’ll find a solution for my future choise of life about my profession of architect…
kisses,
veronica
Annie, that post at emeco rocked. Like a chair. You are so funny. Also, can you tell your publisher that your book is IMPOSSIBLE to find in any bookstore in Canada because it should be in every bookstore so old-school shoppers can buy it and support you!
Annie, that post at emeco rocked. Like a chair. You are so funny. Also, can you tell your publisher that your book is IMPOSSIBLE to find in any bookstore in Canada because it should be in every bookstore so old-school shoppers can buy it and support you!
Veronica: Hahaha I’m glad that the letter is up at your school! I think it’s in Abitare magazine this month, have you seen it? I know someone translated it into Italian, but I haven’t seen it.
Chantel: I’m pretty sure it’s in Canada. If not, I’ll change my book title to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Every store has that.
I own those chairs. That’s because I put my husband in charge of buying chairs (I had no idea how much they cost). Now I know why he bought them (the YouTube video, obviously). I can’t believe one of my favorite new writers has been hired to blog about chairs I actually own. That’s just so…weird. But in a good way. Anyway, I posted a link to your blog on my website a while ago and now everyone I know can’t stop talking about how cool you are, including other writers who come over and sit in my Emeco chairs (one of whom was YA author Judy Blume. Well, she didn’t actually sit in one of THOSE chairs. But she could have). Just wanted you to know.
Meg: Your husband did a good job with the chairs, they are really comfortable. Except they are SO COLD on the butt region.
Judy Blume is like my childhood HERO. When I was little I thought she was actually Jesus. If she was sitting in my apartment I’d probably shit myself and then ask why she was in my apartment. Also: You are like the Judy Blume of today, do you know that? Probably but you should hear it again.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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