This chair was made famous by Madonna in her 1993 video for the song Rain. A fantastic video that certainly stands up to today's standards. It was soon after this I saved up to buy my first watch as a kid from ikepod, also designed by the fabulous Marc Newson.

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anyone who spends that kind of money for a chair is a sinner because of all the starving people in the world

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are you FREAKIN kidding me? I struggle to make sure I have food when I go to work, do I have enough gas for the week?...etc. I am a salaried manager and still fight to make ends meet. Unbelievable!!!

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the people that buy this stuff have the money to buy it, why are you judging them because of how much money they have? they may spend 2.4mil on a chair but did you stop to think that maybe they have donated $5mil+ to charities over the last year?

people, stop being jealous.

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Totally insane

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cody you amblivelent ass, how much have you given to the poor and hungry lately.if you have given something close to what that stupid shit paid for that chair.reply otherwise or shut your trap

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cody if you truly think that way you need to have your legs broken

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cody,also i work for one of the richest men in minnesots.the only things he gives to anyone is to a relative.tell me your different or shut your pietrap

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and?dont see many comments cody.stuck for words?

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cody still waiting.thinking you have thought about your comment and have seen the error of your ways

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You people are all absolutely ridiculous! People can spend their money however they choose. They earned it fair and square. It would be good for people to give to charities, but there's nothing that says they have to do that. How would you like if somebody were to dictate how you spent your money??

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People who have the means to buy the chair have every right to do so. No one else has any right to put them down for it. As for whether a buyer of such a chair gives money to charity, that is non sequitor, a completely unrelated issue. As for me, I would not buy the chair if I had the money. My friends would ridicule me for being such an idiot.

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That is one ugly looking chair. The designer appears to be out to see which sucker goes for it. DUH!

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Hello, that's hideous! I'd pay to have it hauled away!

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It is a glorious piece of furniture and art. Industrial is a great style (behind true Art Deco and Atomic/Spaceage) and this is an instant classic. Note the feet copied from the Queen Anne style's Dutch foot design, the flowing lines from the feet to the body evoking an airplane, and the no-nonsense back sans headrest meaning this is for wide-awake people only. Contact! Chocks away!

Sublime.

Just because you cannot appreciate this work does not mean you are a boorish troglodyte, but it doesn't help secure your position among mavens of culture when you trumpet your lack of taste to the hoi polloi.

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Wow...it absolutely amazes me that everyone is so up in arms about that chair! You can't judge someone for wanting to by that anymore than you can judge someone for buying a Mercedes or BMW instead of a Honda Civic or Nissan Sentra. If they have the money and they want to purchase that chair, they have every right to do so.

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Bottom line is, if you are willing to spend two plus million on a chair then you have your priorities messed up.

Of course the person who buys this chair will not blink at spending up to 2 1/2 million dollars on any one item. That is why we call them BILLINAIRES. But to me that would be like spending four million dollars for a Ford Focus.

Bill Gates who has more money then he could ever spend, donates more money in one year then all of us will ever make in our life times. Even he would be an idiot to spend that kind of money on a freaking chair.

Oh, but some of you might say it is an investment. Even so, what kind of return can you expect on a chair that you spent two and a half million dollars on? Maybe 15 years down the road you can sale it for four or five million. If you took that original 2.5 million and invested it more wisely, your return would be greater then what you could ever expect from the chair. Especially if the designer does something to soil his name.

All of this is a gamble that I would not take regardless of my personal wealth.

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UGLY, UGLY, UGLY. With a capital UGH!

Mikey, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and you are in desperate need of glasses.

dchefwendigo, Mellow dude. This is how Capitalism works. People with more money than sense, buy some God Awful piece of junk and a portion of the money they spend goes to Christie's who pay their people with it and contrary to some peoples' beliefs, not all of them make 6 figures. It's the trickle down effect. It's to bad the trickle is so small but what can you do.

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Dang. It has been my lifelong ambition to secure a position among the mavens of culture. Now I've lost out. Oh well, might as well kill myself. Sigh!!

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