Comet Elizarieva

This is a handcrafted functional sculpture-lounger.

When not in use, it stands upright or at a 45-degree angle. A gentle push on one of its sides lowers «Comet» into a horizontal position, transforming it into a lounger. One side allows for lying down, the other for a semi-reclined sitting position. Both sides enable a gentle rocking motion. Once you get up, the lounger effortlessly returns to its vertical sculptural form, relying solely on gravity and its shifted center of mass.

Despite its substantial weight, «Comet» can be easily moved and rotated in space, as if it were weightless. It appears to be carved from a single block of stainless steel, but in reality, it is composed of hundreds of individual elements seamlessly joined together.

Materials: stainless steel, black steel, nylon thread Dimensions: 195 × 103 × 103 cm Weight: 80 kg

Made to order. Price: 620,000 RUB.

All my ideas start with a single question: What if everything we take for granted could be made differently?

We assume that a sofa, chair, or lounger must have legs, a seat, a backrest, armrests… They are meant to stand horizontally and, of course, rest on the floor. Such furniture takes up space, collects dust underneath, yet we see this as normal, natural, and inevitable.

I wanted to create an object that would break these rules. One that would change its position and function not through mechanical systems, electricity, or human effort, but through a natural force — gravity itself.