41 SEMIPRECIOUS CHAIR

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WOULD YOU PAY BIG $$ FOR THIS UNCOMFORTABLE-LOOKING CHAIR?

A Japanese semiprecious-stone processing company is selling a ¥450,000 (USD$3,400) office chair made out of a giant, L-shaped piece of amethyst.

Factory-M, a store specializing in semiprecious natural stones, has gotten a lot of attention after posting photos of its most recent product on social media. The Japanese company shared pictures of what many people thought was a photo-shopped fake or some sort of torture device; the company needed to put out a statement swearing that it was, indeed, a real product. Looking at the photo, it is easy to see why so many people thought it was some sort of joke rather than an actual office chair, but Factory-M insists that you can actually sit on it, if you can afford to buy it.

Koichi Hasegawa, the founder and owner of Factory-M, told reporters that he came up with the idea for the unusual-looking office chair while on a trip to the United States, when he was looking for natural stones to bring home to Japan. Upon seeing this large, L-shaped piece of amethyst, he immediately pictured it processed into a chair and decided to go ahead with the idea.

The amethyst had to have its sharp edges ground down to make sitting on the stone safe, but it still does not look very comfortable, despite Hasegawa’s reassurance. The chair consists of the amethyst piece sitting on a reinforced metal frame, and Factory-M promises that it can easily support a sumo wrestler, if necessary.

As you can imagine, this unique office chair is not the lightest chair ever made. The amethyst alone weighs a whopping 88 kilograms, and with the metal frame included, the weight of the chair goes up to 99 kilograms. It is a good thing that it has wheels on it, in case you need to move it.

Hasegawa claims that dozens of individuals and companies have expressed interest in acquiring it, so do not wait, if your office needs this one-of-a-kind sitting experience.

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