The arms look great for white-knuckled gripping.

Charming.

It looks like something from a Tim Burton movie. How does RH still stay in business?

I went to RH last week to get some of their towels that I love and they were on sale to boot. I hadn't been in there for about 2 years. My thought as I was walking through was , this is a scary place! Everything seems to be built for giants.

I agree. No color anywhere.

My daughter and her husband bought one of their tables and there is really no good way to clean it. Now she's 7 months pregnant with her first.

Don't know what they will do when they get spaghettios the crevices.

I actually think the chair is pretty cool. I wouldn't want it as a reproduction, but if my mother had stumbled across an original, she would have bought it for my periodontist father. For me the cool factor goes way down when I know there are 1000s out there just like it!

I bought some hardware for my bath from them, but I haven't been in RH in probably 10 years, and I don't get their catalogue, but from the comments I've read on here, they're not appealing to many!

not appealing in the least! What are they thinking?

Ugh! My mother used to inquire, at moments like these, "What do you call that?"

After I posted that all I can imagine is a reproduction Electric Chair next.

I like it! It's cool looking, an interesting accent chair.
But only one interesting accent piece per room for me.
I wouldn't want a gear table AND a funky chair....

Yikes is right. Stinky, I think I will steal your mother's line-very useful. :)

What a hideous chair. Reminds me of vertebrae ... No thanks.

Cyn, I'm glad you can put that to use!

If the labeling wasn't so crazy, I wonder how many more might like it?
If it were an 1875 Apothecary desk chair instead?
Or a librarian's writing chair? Or an Anthropologist's task chair?
Most people instinctively hate dentists so why label a chair that.

Well, I agree that trying to sell something labeled a "dentist's chair" doesn't help the cause, but RH could say it was a copy of a bonafide "saint's chair" and it would still hold little appeal, imo! The visual comes first. If people don't like what they see, they find negatives in the label to reinforce their poor impression. In this case, extraordinarily so!

There are some things that just don't need to ever be reinvented, reconstituted, or revived. This would be one.

And it looks so comfortable to sit in - NOT!

I am with Bumblebeez. I think it's interesting, and I would buy an original in a heartbeat for the right price. I am not that interested in a reproduction.... but the unique qualities coupled with the history of an original would be fun.

I wouldn't say that people hate their dentists. I love my dentist, but hate going. And would not want to be reminded by seeing this gawd-awful chair/torture device. At least Tim Burton has humor.
Diane

Very scarey looking...((((shudder)))

Welllllll, the standard dental tincture in 1850's France was probably opium...so maybe there were a few "good times?"

I think the chair is interesting looking and I would love an original, but I agree with Denali_2007, I feel like I'm in the land of the giants when I try out any of their furniture.

Forgo to say, not surprised to see the RH version is on final sale.

Many of the negative comments regarding the chair are still because it's a called a dentist torture chair.

I just came from the dentist, always hate going and today's experience makes me shutter when I see that chair!!! LOL Nice color of wood but the final sales price makes me laugh.

It also brings to mind the chairs Inez and her mother were looking at in the movie "Midnight in Paris", in the furniture shop, "Only $18,000 a piece - wait that's Euros, it would be more like $20,000". I could never figure out if the wooden "tray" across the arms was part of the chair design or just to keep people from sitting on it.

ahhhhhhhh ... perfect for Halloween here at Block 13, Lot 13 on Cemetery Hill .....

One of my skeletons would be perfect poised in that chair! :)

LOL! :)

My first thought was that it looks like an electric chair, so doesn't matter to me what they call it. :/

Wow, Drybean...fancy that!

Oh, I don't know. The right label can be important. Maybe wouldn't have had to drop the price so dramatically if they'd called it an enhanced interrogation chair instead.

Disturbing. That chair would keep me up all night.

LOLOLOL!!!!

Hey drybean... I just bought a chair like that for $80. Missing the spittoon and needs minor work. Let me know if you know anyone that wants one - $80 + time to restore it