I adore these sliding doors. I know them from being involved in choir and band. I more remember them as Stage Doors- since they slide, they can't be slammed... and can't ruin a performance. But I've seen them used as Fire Doors as well.
i can imagine a child with tremors but a sound mind needing something like this. His feet can be set in, the chains strapped over the feet to reduce the involuntary movement, and allow the child to focus on his studies.
It's not all sicko horror-show torture time, people. People had good reasons for the things they did, it's only our medical advances that has made formerly-sane ideas sound completely barbaric. Imagine what our children's children will think of us and our medical practices.
Had pull-out bleachers like this at my old HS...
weird for me to think that the stuff we used were used at mental hospitals too...
Them pullouts were dangerous sometimes.
ohh man, seeing them chairs dragged me back to High school. There was a classroom near the Wood Shop that stored all the broken chairs so Maintenance could cobble chairs together- you'd get red seats with blue backs...
I know it's wrong and FAIL-esque, but i still can't help but admire it. It's really an attractive... can I call it 'piece of art' ? Or is it a tag? Nevertheless, wonderful design and execution, even if it's uberfail on account of it being a TB joint.
@amanda:
embossed is the word you're looking for.
My parents had one- they are the coolest doohickeys.
You can still find some at craft stores, but most people use the heat-sensitive label printers now.
If you've ever trodden on hardwood floors barefoot for hours at a time, you feet do wind up red from all the pressure. You also need to consider the lighting source- if this is indeed taken here the place probably utilizes fluorescent lighting.
In my personal opinion, this is a photo someone took as foreplay. She's stripped down, posing forcefully, and the attire ( sports bra and patterned panties) looks to be mid/late 90s- not at all related to the book its inserted into.
As the saying goes, correlation does not equal causation.
The idea of wood-panelled refrigerators is really appealing, I woudl love to have one in my home. Just make all my appliances disappear in a parade of wood-toned panels.
Imagine if someone came up with a light fixture that dispensed soap. All our heads would asplode.