Harkonnen Chair

The Harkonnen Chairs are a series of H. R. Giger's furniture designs. They were manufactured by hand chiefly out of aluminium or black fiberglass and made to resemble a human skeleton.[1] The chairs were initially designed for an unproduced movie version of the 1965 Frank Herbert science fiction novel Dune that was to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky in the 1970s.[2] Baron Harkonnen is one of the primary antagonists in Herbert's novel.

The series consisted of a regular chair and a more elaborate "Capo" chair intended to be used as Baron Harkonnen's main chair. The most prominent feature of the Capo Chair is a crown of three noseless skulls stacked on top of each other in a column above the back of the chair. This feature distinguishes the Capo Chair from regular Harkonnen Chairs, which lack the triple skull crown and armrests. Giger sold replicas for $30,000 (fiberglass) to $50,000 (aluminium).[3]

Versions of the regular Harkonnen Chairs are in use at the two Swiss Giger Bar locations.[4][5][6][7]

  • A complete set of chairs showing both the regular and "Capo" versions
  • Harkonnen Chairs are used in Giger Bar in Gruyères.

References

  1. ^ "Alien style for those with everything - and money too". The Dominion Post. August 25, 2007. p. F2. ISSN 1175-9488.
  2. ^ Giger, H. R. (1996). H.R.Giger's Film Design. Titan Books. ISBN 9781852867195.
  3. ^ "H.R. Giger's Harkonnen Chairs". HRGiger.com. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Giger Bar: Gruyères, Switzerland".
  5. ^ "Giger Bar: Chur, Switzerland".
  6. ^ Brock, Jason V. (2014). "Chapter 26". Disorders of Magnitude: A Survey of Dark Fantasy. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 187. ISBN 9781442235250. LCCN 2014005910 – via Google Books.
  7. ^ Spiller, Neil (March 2018). "Alien Ossuary: The HR Giger Museum Bar". Architectural Design. 88 (2): 36–41. doi:10.1002/ad.2277.
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