The Specter Chair, from New Jersey designer John Urso, comes in fabric impregnated with resin to create a structure that stands up. Hence the haunting name. “There’s no structure under there. You can see through it and sit on it too,” says Urso.

I say, “Who would want to?”

I have two major problems with this kind of thing. First, it’s super expensive. The one shown here is $2,500. Second, and even worse, is that like all jokes the “magic” of this chair is only funny (or “Amazing!”) once. After that it’s just another chair - and a rather expensive and ugly one at that. You’ve got to have a whole lot of friends that want amazing! in a bad way to get your money’s worth out of it.