Human furniture Human furniture Human furniture is furniture in which a person's body is used as a tray, foot stool, chair, table, cabinet or other item. Forniphilia is the practice of creating human furniture. Examples of human furniture have appeared in modern art and in pornography. A model used as human furniture may be nude or semi-nude to add to the erotic or aesthetic appeal. Allen Jones' sculptures "Hatstand", "Table" and "Chair", made in 1969, which show semi-naked women in the roles of furniture, is a classic example of the depiction of forniphilia as art. The term "forniphilia" was coined by bondage
Egg of Columbus he refused, proposing instead: When the church was finally built it had the shape of half an egg slightly flattened at the top. Mary Shelley mentions Columbus's egg in her Introduction to the Third Edition of "Frankenstein" (1869, p. 10), writing "In all matters of discovery and invention, even of those that appertain to the imagination, we are continually reminded of the story of Columbus and his egg. Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it." Adolf Hitler used the metaphor in "Mein