{{Short description|Practice in which a person's body is used as furniture}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{multiple image|perrow = 1|total_width= 200 | image1 = Bling-bling - table.jpg | image2 = Ostra Three naked women.jpg | footer = A nude woman posing as a decorative table (''top''). A human table, formed using three nude women (''bottom''). }} '''Human furniture''' is furniture in which a person's body is used as a tray, foot stool, chair, table, cabinet or other item. In some cases a sculpture of a human body is used instead. Examples of human furniture have appeared in modern art. '''Forniphilia''' is the paraphilia relating to human furniture, including that seen in fetish photography and bondage pornography.
==Art== A model used as human furniture may be nude or semi-nude to add to the erotic or aesthetic appeal. A classic example of the depiction of human furniture as art is the set of three sculptures ''Hatstand'', ''Table'' and ''Chair'' made in 1969 by British pop artist Allen Jones which show semi-naked white women in the roles of furniture.<ref name="turned down stanley">{{cite news |author=Martin Gayford |title=Allen Jones: The day I turned down Stanley Kubrick |work=The Telegraph |place=London |date=8 October 2007 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3668398/Allen-Jones-The-day-I-turned-down-Stanley-Kubrick.html |access-date=30 July 2017 |archive-date=5 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805072401/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3668398/Allen-Jones-The-day-I-turned-down-Stanley-Kubrick.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Allen Jones' artwork was the subject of a feminist protest when it was auctioned at Sotheby's in 2012.<ref>{{cite news |title=Is Allen Jones's sculpture the most sexist art ever? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/10/allen-jones-sexist-art-royal-academy-review |access-date=25 December 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=10 November 2014 |language=en |archive-date=26 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191226212329/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/nov/10/allen-jones-sexist-art-royal-academy-review |url-status=live }}</ref>
Norwegian artist Bjarne Melgaard created a sculpture called ''Chair'' which has the same shape as the Allen Jones' chair but depicts a black woman.<ref name=ES1>{{cite news |title=Roman Abramovich's girlfriend Dasha Zhukova apologises for 'black woman' chair photo |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/roman-abramovichs-girlfriend-dasha-zhukova-apologises-for-black-woman-chair-photo-9073988.html |access-date=25 December 2020 |work=Evening Standard|location=London |date=21 January 2014 |language=en |archive-date=12 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112020454/http://www.standard.co.uk/news/celebritynews/roman-abramovichs-girlfriend-dasha-zhukova-apologises-for-black-woman-chair-photo-9073988.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2014 art collector Dasha Zhukova, the partner of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, caused controversy by appearing in a photograph sitting on Melgaard's chair.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why there's nothing racist about the 'racist chair' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/jan/21/racist-chair-bjarne-melgaard-dasha-zhukova |access-date=25 December 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=21 January 2014 |language=en |archive-date=23 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201223090634/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/jan/21/racist-chair-bjarne-melgaard-dasha-zhukova |url-status=live }}</ref> Zhukova apologized for the photograph saying that she "utterly abhor[s] racism, and would like to apologise to anyone who has been offended by this image".<ref name=ES1/>
The Japanese fetish artist Namio Harukawa depicted voluptuous women, who dominated and used men as human furniture.<ref>{{cite news |title=Japanese femdom artist Namio Harukawa has passed away |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/49013/1/japanese-femdom-artist-namio-harukawa-has-passed-away |access-date=25 December 2020 |work=Dazed |date=27 April 2020 |language=en |archive-date=26 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126055659/https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/49013/1/japanese-femdom-artist-namio-harukawa-has-passed-away |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 2025, Bianca Censori debuted bondage females as human furniture in South Korea, which was praised by her husband and artist Kanye West.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kanye West says he's 'so proud' of wife Bianca Censori after she reveals bizarre human furniture|url=https://www.ladbible.com/entertainment/celebrity/kanye-west-bianca-censori-bio-pop-human-furniture-496155-20251231 |access-date=12 January 2026 |work=Dazed |date=31 December 2025 |language=en|url-status=live }}</ref>
==Bondage== [[File:CSD 2006 Cologne BDSM 17.jpg|thumb|right|Dominatrices sitting on submissive males by using them as chairs, Cologne Pride, 2006]]
The term ''forniphilia'' was coined by bondage artist Jeff Gord<ref name="Jeff Gord Interview">{{cite web|url=http://socialkink.com/articles.php?do=view&id=92 |title=Jeff Gord Interview |date=24 October 2007 |access-date=12 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422130006/http://socialkink.com/articles.php?do=view&id=92 |archive-date=22 April 2009 }}</ref><ref name=hames>Ashley Hames, ''Sin Cities'', Tonto Books, 2008, {{ISBN|0-9556326-0-9}}, pp. 184–188</ref> who specialized in the subgenre and maintained the website "House of Gord" on the subject.<ref>{{cite book|title=Literary / Liberal Entanglements: Toward a Literary History for the Twenty-First Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D4E0DwAAQBAJ|first1=Corrinne|last1=Harol|first2=Mark|last2=Simpson|publisher=University of Toronto Press|year=2017|isbn=9781442630901|page=70|access-date=10 May 2018|archive-date=3 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803204048/https://books.google.com/books?id=D4E0DwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> Forniphilia as a form of bondage usually involves the subject being tightly bound and expected to stay immobile for a prolonged period.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/The-kinks-of-virtual-men/articleshow/1911674.cms | title=The kinks of virtual men | date=15 April 2007 | journal=The Times of India | access-date=14 October 2010 | archive-date=22 October 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022213652/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-toi/The-kinks-of-virtual-men/articleshow/1911674.cms | url-status=live }}</ref> Gord said that the maximum period he used depended on the bondage techniques involved but it did not generally exceed two hours. Gord also warned that the dangers inherent in forniphilia meant that it should only be carried out by experts.<ref>{{cite web|website=House of Gord|title=Forniphilia, page 2|url=https://www.houseofgord.com/p/forniphilia/1/page/2|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> Gord used gags in some of his creations.<ref>{{cite web|website=House of Gord|title=Forniphilia, page 4|url=https://www.houseofgord.com/p/forniphilia/1/page/4|access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref> A forniphilic gag is a type of gag that has the primary purpose of sexual objectification or erotic humiliation.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}} Proper safety requires frequent checks of the submissive's well-being.
==In fiction== [[File:Stanley Kubrick The Exhibition - LACMA - A Clockwork Orange - Korova Milk Bar (8998526527).jpg|thumb|right|Human furniture from ''A Clockwork Orange'']] The 1971 film ''A Clockwork Orange'' includes a scene of a gang sitting in a room furnished with tables shaped like nude women.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cocks |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Diedrick |first2=James |last3=Perusek |first3=Glenn |title=Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History |date=2006 |publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press |isbn=978-0-299-21613-9 |pages=290 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E1PrIkji88EC&pg=PA290 |language=en}}</ref>
In Episode 7 of the 2021 Netflix Original Korean Drama, ''Squid Game'', the anonymous VIPs invited to watch the show's blood sport are surrounded by human furniture, which are seen wearing elaborate body paint.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15215462/?ref_=ttep_ep7|title=Squid Game: VIPS|date=17 September 2021|publisher=IMDb}}</ref>
==See also== * Animal roleplay * Erotic furniture * Erotic humiliation * Facesitting * Nyotaimori, the practice of consuming food placed on a naked woman's body * Sexual fetishism * Sexual objectification
==References== <references />
==External links== {{commons category|Human furniture}} {{BDSM}}
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