Are you looking for furniture that will both tie the room together and make your guests gag with fear?
BRC Designs probably has what you're looking for. The razor-sharp minds
over at the design house, based in Spartanburg, South Carolina, have
unleashed a terrible plague upon the world of home decor: "zombie furniture."
These are seats and couches with dripping blood, raw patches that look
like skin was torn off and a general appearance of getting ready to
animate itself and shuffle over to eat your flesh. And the horror of
this festering line doesn't end there, with its origin stretching all
the way over the ocean to Ghana's famous carpenters of death.
An Xiao Mina at Core77 has the full story
of how this sleep-disturbing (yet swanky!) stuff got made, but here's
the short version. BRC chief Benjamin Caldwell traveled to Ghana to
apprentice with the country's coffin builders, who produce unique boxes
meant to reflect the lifestyle and accomplishments of the deceased.
Picking up a plane and chisel, Caldwell settled in with Eric Anang,
grandson of the renowned artisan Kane Kwei, whose studio has churned out coffins in the guise of red fish, flashy cars and, weirdly, a pig for the businessman who introduced swine to Accra.
