Rubber bearskin rug

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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March 26th, 2010 12

Cast in urethane by Dutch designer Eelko Moorer. White and black versions also exist. [via designboom]

12 thoughts on “Rubber bearskin rug”

Colecoman1982 says:

March 26th, 2010 at 6:41 am

So, they managed to find a bear with a liquid latex kink?

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1. Sean Michael Ragan says:
  
  March 26th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
  
  …the trick is finding one *without* a liquid latex kink.
  
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jeff-o says:

March 26th, 2010 at 7:47 am

That’s actually really gross. Do not want.

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1. Sean Michael Ragan says:
  
  March 26th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
  
  Gross? To me a real dead animal skin rug would be considerably grosser than this polymer version, which I actually think is sort of clever.
  
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Simon says:

March 26th, 2010 at 12:02 pm

It almost being Easter did anyone else look at that picture first and think it was made from chocolate?

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1. Rachel Hobson says:
  
  March 26th, 2010 at 10:08 pm
  
  Yes! I was clicking over to comment that it looked like yummy chocolate to me. :)
  
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