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Alexander McQueen Debuts Limited-Edition Egg Chair

CasaSugar — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:40:00 -0700

Alexander McQueen is taking his talent from the runway to your living room. The Egg Chair, which he created in 2002 as part of his store design - not to be confused with Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair - will be produced in a limited-edition run of five chairs, available to buy this month in his London and New York boutiques. The chairs will feature his iconic houndstooth print from the AW09/10 women's collection, "The Horn of Plenty." If you're not one of the lucky five this time around, you can have another shot at bringing McQueen home when a second version is launched around Christmas 2009. Want to see a close-up of the chair? It has skull zippers! Then read more.

Found It! Alexander McQueen's Table

CasaSugar — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:15:44 -0700

Recently reading a Fashionologie post on designers Dries Van Noten and Alexander McQueen's Spring 2009 collections, I couldn't help but notice the glass-top table in the photo of McQueen glaring back at me. If you're scratching your head wondering why it looks familiar to you, that's because it is. The table is a life-size sculpture of a woman as furniture with fetishist and sado-masochist overtones designed by British artist Allen Jones in 1969 as part of his very famous "Hat Stand and Table" series. I featured his Chair sculpture in the series, which sits in London's Tate Gallery, as a Weird Furniture post not too long ago. In the mid-1960s, the Brit Pop painter, sculptor, and printmaker found inspiration in the human figure, and created provocatively erotic works that were meant to arouse an emotional response in the viewer — McQueen's table, otherwise known as forniphilia, is an extreme example of this technique. To see other images of the table, read more.

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Casa Capsule: The Week That Was

CasaSugar — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:17:52 -0700

I interviewed Sex and the City production designer Jeremy Conway.
Alexander McQueen has a fetishist and sado-masochist table.
Believe it or not, none of you want to get married in Ikea!
The majority of you sleep on the left side of the bed.
I told you how to vanquish ants from your house.
The cast of Gossip Girl and Jennifer Hudson are auctioning off a flashy lamp for charity.
I showed you how to get the look of Carrie Bradshaw in more ways than one.
A TeamSugar member made her very own Nakashima-esque table.