Harkonnen Chair
Series of H. R. Giger's furniture designs
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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.
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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
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