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“Sorry For Design”: 50 Utterly Dreadful Designs Posted On This Instagram Account
All the fellow interior and furniture design aficionados, pull your seats closer. Also, those who enjoy the quirkier side of the internet. Today, we have a real treat for you!
Welcome to “Sorry For Design,” an Instagram page that labels itself as “visual arts” entertainment and you can’t argue. The account, which seems to be still growing, features an impressive collection of the most eccentric, plain weird and totally bizarro pieces of interior decor.
Think of a tarantula chair or a Jeff Goldblum-inspired bathroom: some of the designs shared here take insanity to an entirely new level. Below we selected the funniest and most eyebrow-raising examples, so enjoy and upvote your favorite ones as you go!
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TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
Come on, i would love this as a kid, c**p i want one now, and i'm in my 40s
Bored Panda reached out to Katia Tolstykh, a Berlin-based interior and furniture designer, co-founder of OddinShape studio, and the creator behind the Sorry For Design Instagram account. Today, Tolstykh has 9 years of experience in design. In 2020, she along with her husband founded Odd In Shape, a multi-disciplinary design studio that works mainly in digital art, dreamscape interiors, and furniture design.
Tolstykh told us that Sorry For Design was created as a source of inspiration and fun. “Instagram, Pinterest, and other resources focus on beautiful and professional products, while a massive number of things made by non-professionals are left out of the equation,” Tolstykh explained.
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One step closer to the mother nature
According to the interior and furniture designers, they may be funny, vulgar, naive, or disgusting, but they are all worthy of attention. “My account is a collection of projects by notable designers, and by ordinary people. All these projects are done with soul,” Tolstykh said.
When it comes to eccentric and unusual design, Tolstykh believes that it not only catches the eye but also “cheers people up.” Moreover, “everyone has their own reasons to like this design. It's hard to speak for everyone,” she said.
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Tahani 3 years ago
Not when you know it is modelled after a brazen bull....
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Chris Yuen 3 years ago
Clever until you realise it is shape of this.. https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/brazen-bull.html
Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 3 years ago
YAS exactly what I was thinking! Its sad.😓
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P B Wilson 3 years ago
I'm really glad others recognized the brazen bull. It's what I thought of at first glance. I could never eat anything out of that thing 😳
Jennifer Norton 3 years ago
I wonder if people get the reference here..... if you don't look up iron bull torture!
Whitefox 3 years ago
Reading the comments, I do believe we have some cultured people around lol.
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hi myself, bi weirdo🇺🇦️ 3 years ago
You know there was a medieval torture device kinda like this, I’m pretty sure it was called the bronze bull. Don’t ask why I know this, I just know weirdly enough about medieval torture devices. You would be placed inside and the metal would be heated up until it was essentially a human oven.
David Brown 3 years ago
Awesome grill with the added functionality as a torture device for the douchebag neighbors.
Lexi dat me 3 years ago
It looks like that greek i think torture bull were you would be burned to Death
izzy (pan)da 3 years ago
i can't hate it! if that's ur thing more power to u cos it looks cool asf
FrillyDragon 3 years ago
Cool aside from the obvious inspiration. At least there's no "roaring" coming from it!
Louise Platiel 3 years ago
I'm sorry but if someone hates that we can't be friends. That's awesome.
Cat Chat 3 years ago
Yeah, my first thought was it really doesn't need to look that realistic.
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I'm a native Georgian in TX and I find this ridiculously awesome!!! Would totally BBQ on this while watching the Houston Texans play!!! Is that why I don't understand why it's on this list?
Cheryl Carter 3 years ago
Amazing! I would buy it! It even has the boy parts. lol I love that it has the smoke going out the nose.
Patricia Stilwell 3 years ago
I hate everything that suggests cuteness (or whatever) about animals that we eat. Pigs named Pork Chop, dancing chicken or turkeys before they are cooked...the animals whose lives are taken for us to eat deserve the utmost respect in our care for them.
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 3 years ago
Remembers me of the Bull of Falaris (actually a torture device!)
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
It's awesome and awful at the same time. Read Terry Pratchetts "Small gods"....
Mickie Shea 3 years ago
We had several at our site and guests loved them. However, being all bulls they became territorial.
LadyGoodWrite 3 years ago
I actually dig this. There are iron versions that that are spectacular.
Aboud Dweck 3 years ago
This is why I want to move out of my apartment to a house. I need this.
Terry Armstrong 3 years ago
There must be something seriously wrong with me by BP standards...I'm up to number 7 and have LOVED every one!!
Aisha Murphy 3 years ago
That was a medieval torture method lmao I wouldn't eat out of that even if it looks cool....
I_Kid_U_Not 3 years ago
An ancient torture device to cook your ribs in? I'm totally here for.it!
Evan Krecsy 3 years ago
This actually reminds me of that brazen bull torture device. So while clever, it's pretty morbid.
Mary Bridget 3 years ago
I love it, I would never have one but I give credit to anyone that's that flamboyant that they would have one.
Chelsea Poole 3 years ago
Cool? Though something about a cow cooking beef conjures images of digging your own grave...
Jennifer Walker 3 years ago
I love it. Those grills and smokers are generally eyesores. This is a piece of art that cooks.
Sharon 3 years ago (edited)
Too much like the ancient torture device where the screams of the person cooking inside came out the bulls mouth sounding like it's bellowing. No freaking thank you. Also, using a bull shape too cook beef, creepy to say the least. Does the grease drip out of his sheath?
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Reminds me of the bull in (2011) Red Riding Hood starring Amanda Seyfried.
Fergus Corgi 3 years ago
I saw a similar one at the store & my husband wouldn't let me buy it 😞
thepinkrobot 3 years ago
Reminds me of the brazen bull which was used to punish/execute ppl. They'd steam them alive inside a bull like this and the smoke would escape through the nostrils.
Kris “ADHD_Carrier” Dudoich 3 years ago
I've actually seen one of these in person done in more of a copper color and they are very cool!
Oliver Coine 3 years ago
That moment someone decided an Iron Bull was better as a grill instead of a torture device 🤣
Lucinda Speer 3 years ago
The Bronze Bull lives again! The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, or bull of Phalaris, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. According to Diodorus Siculus, recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica, Perilaus (or Perillus) of Athens invented and proposed it to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas, Sicily, as a new means of executing criminals.[2] The bull was said to be hollow and made entirely out of bronze with a door in one side.[3] According to legends, the brazen bull was designed in the form and size of an actual bull and had an acoustic apparatus that converted screams into the sound of a bull. The condemned were locked inside the device, and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death.
Jimmy Jones 3 years ago
Actually this makes me think of a torture device I saw in a movie once
Bad Alchemy 3 years ago
Clever, and historically referential. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull
sussy_baka (they/them) 3 years ago
Tbh it reminds me of the old tourcher where they would coin people alive and when they scream it makes them sound like a bull so that’s why they made it look like a iron bull
Kitty Purry 3 years ago
Oh no! I would totally lose my appetite thinking about those ppl who were roasted alive in the brazen bull back in medieval times.
Luann Maria 3 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of a torturing devise back in ancient Greece, The Brazon Bull, a huge metal hollow bull with a fire pit under it, prisoners would be locked in this bull and a fire built well.....you know the rest.
Julie Ann Al buzbeba 3 years ago
Reminds me too much of that old torture device that they would cook people in that were still alive....no thanks...
Dunja Blackwell 3 years ago
This is how the Christians burned non-believers. They lit a fire underneath and the screams of the victims came out as powerful bellows.
Dunja Blackwell 3 years ago
This is how the Christians burned non-believers. They lit a fire underneath and the screams of the victims came out as bellows.
Shelby Minchew 3 years ago
Is this in some way, cannibalistic? The owner was could be aiding and abetting??!
Henry Wiley 3 years ago
Instantly thought of a certain Greek myth, it's a brutal one but IYKYK
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Laura Ketteridge 3 years ago (edited)
Oooh, definitely. This would go down so well in many horsey places. I can just see people sitting on this bench to try on new riding roots. (Ooops, Iconic is correct, I meant 'boots', not 'roots'.)
Moreover, the examples shared on Sorry For Design, Tolstykh argues, are really more about art and flamboyance than functional furniture. “They’re about the search for new forms, about scandal, about the rejection of common notions, about the expansion of the boundaries of the permitted and the familiar,” she explained and added that “This is art.”
#11
Under the Sea.
#12
In many ways, interior design is no different than fashion. It has its own trends, styles that change with years, seasons and people’s lifestyles. Various external influences are also to blame for fleeting interior design styles, social change and technological advancement included.
Previously, our fellow Bored Panda writer Rokas spoke with an interior architect and lecturer at Vilnius College of Design named Judita Striukienė. According to her, nowadays eclectic solutions are on the rise; it's really popular to combine different interior design styles
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Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
That feeling when you're being interrogated under a bare lightbulb, but your interrogators got really cute with the decor.
"In fact, it's quite rare to discover a place that is true to just one school. When you say a home was designed according to a certain style, you usually mean that some elements have an advantage in that place over the others or there is some sort of leitmotif throughout the entire space," the interior architect told Bored Panda.
On the other hand, there exist main aspects of good interior design that defy time and trends. According to Striukienė, living spaces have to be functional. Everything else is more or less decor, creating a certain mood," she said.
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Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago (edited)
Jules Verne: novelist, playwright, master of bathroom design
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#18
This is why many interior designers start the design procedure by getting to really know the person or family who are going to live in a particular space. Their lifestyles, preferences, likes and dislikes all make up the end interior the designer comes up with.
Although most people would agree on what they call a bad or a good interior, that doesn’t mean that tacky and eccentric interiors don’t find their audience. On the contrary, it's no secret that the internet has been fascinated with quirky interiors, bizarre furniture, crazy McMansions and everything in between.
These unusual spaces seem to both transgress universal aesthetics on what we consider appealing and common sense, and show that there can also be no rules whatsoever.
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Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
I was holding it together and then I saw the toes. Oh heck no
#27
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago (edited)
Spider Bed, Spider Bed / Groovy place to lay your head / Is it safe? Heaven knows / He's got radioactive toes / Hey you (who?) / Jump in the Spider Bed. (For the tune, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OP8keCbSVU)
#33
Over brutality.
Patrick Heining 3 years ago
In fact, that's kinda clever way of fire protection if you like the style.
#35
#38
Come to Papa
#41
Debbie Barnes 3 years ago
This little pig's expression sums up this sofa.. That's a whole lot of sofa for one seat...
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#45
Really sorry.
#46
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
Looks like this would be uncomfortable. Bring cushions. Better yet, throw the cushions on the floor and sit there.
#48
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago
The wheels are a nice touch. They allow you and your partner to play some kind of agarian bumper-car game in the house.
#51
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Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
When you are convinced that your small flat is actually a mansion...
#61
Pirates of Zen Pants 3 years ago (edited)
What is the porpoise of this? Who put it dolph-in the lobby?
#64
When you’re in Emperor mood
#72
Will Cable 3 years ago
As the tornado struck many residents feared the movie Sharknado was real
#74
By Roger Tallon 1967
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liam newton-harding 3 years ago
Yet another BP post of "horrible" designs where most are, in fact, wonderful, whimsical, and beautiful.
Ivan Petrov 3 years ago
The second part of the entries were pretty weird though. Especially the double amputee chair *shudder*
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smugdruggler 3 years ago
Yeah, I didn't hate any of them, and loved most of them.
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Brittany Gray 3 years ago
Some of these are abominations (pig couch and human chairs, looking at you), but most of the rest are charming, clever, and quirky. Maybe we can stop shaming anything a little different? Not everyone is going for understated and tasteful. Some of us just want to have a little fun!
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
I'm getting the feeling some of the folks at BP don't know us and our tastes very well.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Most were okay and some even amazing in my opinion; others were fetish style and therefore also do not belong on this list - my best guess would be that BP wanted to show the pictures but had no idea for a fitting title...
Iam Knucks 3 years ago
Yeah, these were great. Does someone just hate non conformists? I love weird people. 1 life to live. Live it weird.
Nay Wilson 3 years ago
some of these are absolutely beautiful, plus very clever. i want the grass and stone path in MY kitchen :-)
Jamie Mcdonald 3 years ago
A lot of these are actually fricken awesome. People are so creative.
Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
Most of these were great. Did I miss something? Like, the obvious adult toy ones aren't my thing, but a lot of these are colorful, fun, well done, and interesting. Have things become so gray out there that anything fun is now "bad"? Dare to be a little weird.
Barbara Pinkerton 3 years ago
Something must be wrong with me. I loved the majority of the designs.
the engineer 🇺🇦 3 years ago
most of these were actually pretty good. and this is an engineer talking.
Ricki Stevens 3 years ago
Most of these are awesome and I would have in my house. Why are they categorized as bad designs?!?
Sandra Monk 3 years ago
Have you seen the "realistic cat backpack" on AliBaba ? It belongs here. I wish I could add images.
Whalen With An N 3 years ago
If you don't like them, don't put them in your house. Problem solved. Many of these were quite amazing!!
Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
Most of these are actually hideous, unlike so many BP "design fail" posts!
Lady Fos-Boss 3 years ago
Alternate title: Incredible designs with a few horrid ones sprinkled in for flavor
Dave Fontana 3 years ago
This is a cool listing of designs with an incorrect title, as most of these designs are actually pretty cool! Seriously, only a handful are what I would call dreadful. I guess beauty is subjective.
Potato 3 years ago
Whomever posted this list must not lead a very exciting life if they think all of these are horrible. I can imagine their house is one beige block with eggshell trimming.
liam newton-harding 3 years ago
Yet another BP post of "horrible" designs where most are, in fact, wonderful, whimsical, and beautiful.
Ivan Petrov 3 years ago
The second part of the entries were pretty weird though. Especially the double amputee chair *shudder*
Load More Replies... smugdruggler 3 years ago
Yeah, I didn't hate any of them, and loved most of them.
Load More Replies... Brittany Gray 3 years ago
Some of these are abominations (pig couch and human chairs, looking at you), but most of the rest are charming, clever, and quirky. Maybe we can stop shaming anything a little different? Not everyone is going for understated and tasteful. Some of us just want to have a little fun!
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
I'm getting the feeling some of the folks at BP don't know us and our tastes very well.
Yoga Kitty 3 years ago
Most were okay and some even amazing in my opinion; others were fetish style and therefore also do not belong on this list - my best guess would be that BP wanted to show the pictures but had no idea for a fitting title...
Iam Knucks 3 years ago
Yeah, these were great. Does someone just hate non conformists? I love weird people. 1 life to live. Live it weird.
Nay Wilson 3 years ago
some of these are absolutely beautiful, plus very clever. i want the grass and stone path in MY kitchen :-)
Jamie Mcdonald 3 years ago
A lot of these are actually fricken awesome. People are so creative.
Cassi Lyris 3 years ago
Most of these were great. Did I miss something? Like, the obvious adult toy ones aren't my thing, but a lot of these are colorful, fun, well done, and interesting. Have things become so gray out there that anything fun is now "bad"? Dare to be a little weird.
Barbara Pinkerton 3 years ago
Something must be wrong with me. I loved the majority of the designs.
the engineer 🇺🇦 3 years ago
most of these were actually pretty good. and this is an engineer talking.
Ricki Stevens 3 years ago
Most of these are awesome and I would have in my house. Why are they categorized as bad designs?!?
Sandra Monk 3 years ago
Have you seen the "realistic cat backpack" on AliBaba ? It belongs here. I wish I could add images.
Whalen With An N 3 years ago
If you don't like them, don't put them in your house. Problem solved. Many of these were quite amazing!!
Caroline Sinclair 3 years ago
Most of these are actually hideous, unlike so many BP "design fail" posts!
Lady Fos-Boss 3 years ago
Alternate title: Incredible designs with a few horrid ones sprinkled in for flavor
Dave Fontana 3 years ago
This is a cool listing of designs with an incorrect title, as most of these designs are actually pretty cool! Seriously, only a handful are what I would call dreadful. I guess beauty is subjective.
Potato 3 years ago
Whomever posted this list must not lead a very exciting life if they think all of these are horrible. I can imagine their house is one beige block with eggshell trimming.
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