The Skull Workstation Is One Funky Fiberglass Office Pod From Atelier van Lieshout.

The AVL (Atelier van Lieshout) Skull is a strikingly designed one-person workstation made of a polyester fiberglass shell with a built in wooden bench and desktop on the interior.




The object shows unmistakeable resemblance to the so-called Skull Rooms that Atelier van Leishout designed at the end of the nineties. This is from the same designer who also brought us the Wellness Skull and the Sensory Deprivation Skull. The AVL Skull is build out of two polyester skull parts, which are ‘riveted’ to each other with bolts.





On the inside a solid wood work surface and a seat have been mounted, which are accessible via a small opening in the one side.




Once inside, the user is closed off from the outside world, just like in the Skull Rooms, and can work on tasks that require more concentration. The light falls inside through a narrow entrance and a ‘porthole’ on the other side.







Dimensions: h174cm x 169cm x 178cm
Price: € 7.203

Available colors:
Beige / Beige RAL 1001
Bruin beige / Brown beige RAL 1011
Pastel licht roze / Pastel pink RAL 3015
Pastel violet / paste violet RAL 4009
Pastel blauw / pastel blue RAL 5024
Ivoor / Ivory RAL 1013
Lichtgrijs / Light grey RAL 7035
Diep zwart /Black Pastel RAL 9005
groen / Pastel green RAL 6019

About The Designer:

Joep van Lieshout of AVL is one of the most successful and best-selling artists in the Netherlands. He is known for its huge 'human' objects of colored polyester, like a womb, a penis or intestines. Van Lieshout was born in Brabant (1963, Ravenstein) but AVL studio is located in Rotterdam.

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White Fiberglass Skull Chair By Pool.

This simple, modern white fiberglass skull chair, by Léa Padovani & Sébastien Kieffer of Pool, made its debut at the 2011 Milan Furniture Fair.




"Souviens toi que tu vas mourir, chair” (translated :"Remember that you will die") is described by the designers as "an emblematic monobloc chair reinterpreted as an expression of vanity. This memento mori represented by a skull acts as a leitmotiv for those who seek the comfort of a chair and the ceremonial act of being seated."



photos ©Benjamin Le Du

material : fiberglass
dimensions : L55cm W50cm H88cm


Pool is Léa Padovani & Sébastien Kieffer. They live and work in Paris.

Skull Chair, Brain Ottoman & Spine Lamp. The Vanitas Collection by Vladi Rapaport.

A collection of products inspired by the Dutch "Vanitas" still life paintings from the 16th and 17th century. The characteristic type of symbolic still life painting is the one where the symbols of emptiness, time and death were placed on the canvas as a reminder of the vanity of one's earthly life.

Skull/ Vanitas collection chair
materials: wood, polyester, glass-fiber
dimensions: 80 x 80 x 85
year: 2008




skull chair prototype in polyester for © pierre bergé & associés :


Brain/ Vanitas collection footstool
materials: leather, polyurethane foam
dimensions: 50 x 35 x 50
year: 2008



Something dead/ Vanitas collection lampmaterials: leather, steal, carbon-fiber, electricity wire, lamp
dimensions: 40 x 190 x 40
year: 2008

all photos courtesy of vladi rapaport

Vladi Rapaport

The Sensory Deprivation Skull & The Wellness Skull

The Sensory Deprivation Skull is a chamber of sorts in which you can sit and essentially cut yourself off from the world. Created in 2007 by Joep van Lieshout of Atelier Van Lieshout, it's comprised of reinforced fiberglass, measures 150 cm tall by 110 cm long and 137 cm wide and is available in a limited edition of 10.







Joep van Lieshout seems to have a thing for skulls; he also created the Wellness Skull in which a sauna is housed and several other sculptures based upon the human skull.



The Wellness Skull is an impressive large skull. Just like Wellness centers it has a few places to relax. In the neck of the skull is a small bath. The head of the Skull contains a sauna. When it is working the hot steam pears out of the eye sockets.




Joep van Lieshout about the Wellness Skull: “The heavenly power is the big unknown, the death of the hereafter, the skull of physical shell of the mind. The earthly power is a economical power, money plays an important role on our contemporary society. Gradually the faith loses all importance and is replaced by an alternative ‘self experience’, through travelling, sporting and wellness centres.


Joep van Lieshout was born in Ravenstein (The Netherlands, 1963). He lives and works in Rotterdam since 1987. Photo and copyright: Merlijn Doomerink

Atelier van Lieshout (AVL) was founded in 1995 by Joep van Lieshout. The name Atelier Van Lieshout emphasises the fact that the works of art do not stem solely from the creative brain of Joep van Lieshout, but are produced by a creative team.

Atelier Van Lieshout
Keilestraat 43e
3029 BP ROTTERDAM
The Netherlands
T: +31(0)10 244 09 71
F: +31(0)10 244 09 72
E-mail: info@ateliervanlieshout.com
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