Monocomplex Design's Tack range is beach furniture with a clever twist. Instead of desperately trying not to sink into the sand, the Tack chair and bench are big spikes which slide into the soft surface like golf tees and sit there, solid.
The lightweight plastic chairs also have handles for easy removal. They probably aren't made to be bought by your or me. Instead, they could be rented out to beachgoers for a few [insert local currency here] per day.
I can see these going down very well in my abandoned country of origin, England. There, on the two days of Summer enjoyed each year, the locals will load up their cars, sit in a traffic jam in sweltering 70ºF heat for several hours and then set up camp on the crowded beaches.
Like Robert Falcon Scott on his Antarctic voyage, the English come prepared: They will have fold out chairs, and perhaps a table. They will bring wind-breaks which they will hammer into the sand around them to turn their small patch of beach into a walled-off outdoor home. They will have thermos flasks full of hot tea, and cold-chests full of sandwiches and beer. There will be kids' toys, inflatables, dinghies, lilos and cheap, plastic footballs.
The two things that you will never see are beach umbrellas and sunscreen. There's nothing the English like more (apart from smashing up public toilets) than to spend their two days of summer lying unprotected under the sun, crisping their pale, sallow skin to a frazzled lobster-red, whilst sweating out enough salty perspiration to fill a paddling pool.
Yes, extra beach furniture would go down a storm in England. Or perhaps it is still a little too exotic. Maybe if Monocomplex came up with an easy to carry TV set and sofa that could be quickly unpacked on the beach, then they'd have the English market sewn up.
Tack product page [Monocomplex via Yanko]
