A sofa shaped like a hot dog and a burger-like chair. The food-themed pieces are part of Studio Job’s Blow collection, and has been launched by Seletti during 2017 Maison&Objet furniture fair in Paris.

As with actual hot dogs and burgers – described by Seletti as “iconic images of American pop culture” – the sofa and chair are each made up of a number of components.

The Hamburger chair features a bun-like seat, with cushions designed to look like a patty, a tomato and a gherkin.

The Hot Dog chair has much the same – but in place of the circular patty cushion is a long sausage embroidered with a squiggly yellow pattern to look like mustard.

‘Making upholstered products is for seletti a huge achievement,’ Stefano Seletti explains, ‘but obviously I had to approach the matter my way! And my way is never a normal one…we will surely explore other typologies in the future, I think we are ready to do that but we will take all the time we need, because we will need to find the right innovative approach. We decided to go big presenting this new adventure with the upholstered furniture: we have the crazy hot dog and hamburger by Studio Job.’

 

Job Smeets explains…

“We love to play with high- and low-end,” Smeets explains. Like the Pop artists of the 1950s and beyond, Studio Job cleverly elevates mass-produced motifs and symbols into costly objects of desire. “I put so much effort into something so common, like spending six months polishing a bucket,” Smeets continues. “It’s kind of what we all do in life.”