South African designer Porky Hefer is showing a killer-whale-shaped chair from his Monstera Deliciosa collection of animal-themed “nests”. Fiona Blackfish has a stitched grey, white and black leather exterior completed with a tail, dorsal fin and flippers. It features a furry pink tongue-shaped seat inside the whale’s mouth, surrounded by leather teeth. It is hung using a red length of rope that has been spliced – a knotting technique more commonly used on yachts for adding strength. The rope has a matching red hook that attaches to a loop at the top of the chair. Other animals represented as seats include a pelican, a manta ray, and a crocodile.
