Welcome to Is This Available? by Dana and Maria, our weekly blast about something we find on Facebook Marketplace.
Brooklyn, New York
Barney purple doesn’t do it for me. Neither does naming a chair for an internal organ1. And frankly, I don’t really have the budget for a $600+ used chair right now.
However, I couldn’t resist a light Google into why the heck this chair is named for the world-renowned fetal sleep sack. According to the chair’s original architect Eero Saarinen, the chair was designed based on the theory that “a great number of people have never really felt comfortable and secure since they left the womb.” Woof. Rub it in bro.
I decided to take a gander at what these adult swaddle replicators might go for new. Design Within Reach says an OG of one of these chairs could set you back upwards of 7k (in reach for who vibes).
With all due respect, I’m baby isn’t enough, I must return to a comfort that predates my entrance into the material world. Used womb chair, $645. Returning to the unmatched security of my mother’s womb? Priceless.
Dana’s miss of the week: I need the streaming services to know that THIS is what I’ve been doing since I’ve being kicked outta their wombs. HBO, Netflix, Discover, Dingdongo, Peacock, Tubi, Caca, Plato, Mars, Pluto, Peepee and Hulu Live… showtime’s over, baby. Smashed my TV, filled it with glassware. $65.
Do you guys think I’m a pervert for thinking this popular lamp looks like a cervix? Or is this like when my parents took me to the Dinner Party show at the Brooklyn Museum as a kid without any context and I thought I was just a uniquely disgusting human for thinking all the plates looked like vaginas.