Tim Takes His Seat!



Stools, chairs and seats are on the menu today…

A joke item based hidden in a film cannister…

A cardboard stool, or is it a table? All made from cardboard.

Tim admires a metallic stool, that is out of his price range…

A 40 year old rickshaw toy.

Joke tickets, apparently for the theatre…

A sofa that converts into bunk beds!

Japanese rocking chairs – wind up toys – with an older couple taking it easy!

Tim shows a picture of a 20 foot high deckchair, installed as an art installation.

Finally, another set of rocking chairs; again these are wind up toys, but have a music box inside as well.

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33 thoughts on “Tim Takes His Seat!”

  1. 3:45 -In so many museums and performance-venues today, EVERYTHING is named after a donor. The Jane Williams Information-Desk. The John Smith Bookstore. "This water-fountain is maintained by the generous endowment of Bill Jones." It made me think that if I were rich I would donate money and get some toilets named after me, with plaques on the walls behind them and everything. The thing is, it DOES cost money for museums to keep a bathroom in good working order, and if my Foundation takes care of that then they're not taking money out of their GENERAL budget for that, and their general budget then has more money left in it to buy art. So it's really all the same as donating for art.

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  2. 6:24 – That giant deck-chair isn't just a joke. The shadow cast by the cloth could be a lot more shade than an umbrella. And, anchored safely so that the front feet are right at the edge of a swimming-pool (which would mean that a line straight down from the front edge of the seat would be over the swimming-pool's water), it could be modified with trampoline-fabric to serve as a kind of combination catapult and diving-board, hurling people out over the water.

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  3. The Japanese gentleman is a genius.. I recall a rather sweet toy, handmade from painted wood and elastic cord, by a chap from Nord Rhine Westphalia, and it was one of those things where you press the bottom, a disc, and the figure collapses, then gets up as you release. It was an old man with a stein of beer in his hand, and the idea was to get him to sit down on the 3 legged stool, by skillfully manipulating the disc.
    As ever, a charming selection here Tim! 🌟👍

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