Human furniture

[3] In 2014 art collector Dasha Zhukova, the partner of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, caused controversy by appearing in a photograph sitting on Melgaard's chair.

[3] The Japanese fetish artist Namio Harukawa depicted voluptuous women, who dominated and used men as human furniture.

[8] Forniphilia as a form of bondage usually involves the subject being tightly bound and expected to stay immobile for a prolonged period.

The 1971 film A Clockwork Orange includes a scene of a gang sitting in a room furnished with tables shaped like nude women.

[12] In Episode 7 of the 2021 Netflix Original Korean Drama, Squid Game, the anonymous VIPs invited to watch the show's blood sport are surrounded by human furniture, which are seen wearing elaborate body paint.