We all hate them...

But someone loves them.

Yes—white plastic chairs. Les horreux! Habitat may be clueless idiotsincapable of selling ex-demo wooden garden furniture to me from their window display, but we'd rather be chairless than have a small flock of these babies out the back. Ah yes - The White Plastic Patio Chair.

Easy to dislike, they remain a design classic of sorts, a marvel of injection-moulded plastic engineering; There are apparently more of these in Europe than people. Or Sheep. So I found today some german fella is taking the time to document their omniprescence and globalised rise on his blog 'Functional Fate'; It's an interesting site:

Functional Fate

Big flood? There's one floating off the levee... Football riot? What better a missile than one off the pile next to the pie caravan!...
Ubiquitous, ugly, hated—yet cheap, available and capable. Everyone needs to sit...

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