Metal Puzzle Office Chairs are office chairs which arrive in bundles all joined together using their legs as the components in metal puzzles.

This means that teams of at least two people must manoever and wield the chairs in 3 dimensional space in order to manipulate them into separated units. The easier ones take the form of two chairs joined using one leg. The more complex ones have additional chairs attached, resulting in them being are more difficult to twist around etc and require more pairs of collaborating hands.

When separated, the chairs all function perfectly, but always retain their ability to be rejoined to each other as metal puzzles.
-- xenzag, Feb 22 2025

This reminds me of the process of assembling a stage from a collection of portable square sections, which were designed to fit together, but only if you were careful about orientation. [+]
-- pertinax, Feb 23 2025


A good attitude for assembling flat-packed furniture.
-- sninctown, Feb 24 2025


Using memory materials and hidden actuators, these chairs can be set to agglomerate into space-saving or presentation modes to accommodate the next users of the room.

They can be programmed to anticipate the next type of meeting or lecture, assuming semicircles, ranked stacks, performance seating, etc.

This is the core of the Agglomeration by Accommodation Recommendation.
-- minoradjustments, Feb 26 2025



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