Laundry day gets weirder: inventor unveils $1,100 clothes-draping chair

A new invention has landed on Kickstarter that’s sparking a mixture of bewilderment and fascination: the Laundry Chair. Created by YouTube personality and inventor Simone Giertz, the contraption aims to combine a place to sit with a convenient spot to temporarily stash dirty clothes.

The chair that's also a clothes rack

At a cool $1,100 (£820), the Laundry Chair isn't exactly an impulse buy. Its design features a lazy-Susan-style rotating rail, cleverly disguised as armrests. Clothes can be draped over this rail, and with a simple swivel, it transforms into a functional chair. The problem? The concept feels remarkably… unnecessary. As one observer wryly noted, a regular chair already exists.

Giertz, known for her quirky and often impractical inventions – she’s previously spent years tackling the challenge of an expanding fruit bowl – has a history of generating attention, often through the sheer novelty of her creations. Her Kickstarter campaign is already garnering attention, with early backers intrigued by the sheer audacity of the project.

The laundry chair’s functionality is undeniably clever, addressing the common problem of overflowing laundry piles. But the question remains: is the solution worth the price tag? The chair’s creators haven’t addressed the elephant in the room: the obvious alternative – simply doing laundry.

Giertz’s past projects hint at a certain disregard for practicality. Imagine a kitchen sink that looks pristine even when piled high with dishes, or a drawer designed to contain a chaotic jumble of chargers and forgotten batteries. Or, perhaps most memorably, a refrigerator capable of magically reviving a month-old container of sprouts. The potential for bizarre, yet oddly compelling, inventions seems limitless. The chair’s creators have not yet revealed future projects.

The Laundry Chair is available now on Kickstarter. It's a testament to the enduring human fascination with solving problems that may not actually exist. And perhaps, a bold statement about the lengths to which some will go to avoid folding laundry.