Zombie

Designed as a one-piece seat in yellow or orange fiberglass reinforced polyester, the Zombie chair was Roger Tallon’s project for the Astroquet bar in Boulevard Saint Germain, Paris. The anthropomorphic seat features a cushion reminiscent of a target on the back rest and two cutouts mimicking eyes. Given this was an exclusive project, only about 20 of these seats were made and, even though they were planned specifically for this setting, the public thought them to be a little too intimidating when installed, which resulted in the owner of the bar, Maurice Marty, to quickly change their initial design, making this piece very rare nowadays. The humanlike chairs were designed amidst the capsule aesthetic boom, in 1967, and are found in museums over the world. Around the same period, several different designers and artists have experimented with limited series featuring humanoid shaped pieces.