--- title: This Chair Reveals a Menacing Shadow at Certain Times of the Day description: Designer Yaara Dekel's ‘Coppelius Chair’ reveals a spooky shadow face canonical: https://time.com/3525055/chair-reveals-shadow/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-20T20:45:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:20.479Z article:section: Ideas og:title: This Chair Reveals a Menacing Shadow at Certain Times of the Day og:description: Designer Yaara Dekel's ‘Coppelius Chair’ reveals a spooky shadow face og:url: https://time.com/3525055/chair-reveals-shadow/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Chair Reveals a Menacing Shadow at Certain Times of the Day twitter:description: Designer Yaara Dekel's ‘Coppelius Chair’ reveals a spooky shadow face twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Have a Seat This Halloween in a Chair That Casts a Spooky Shadow by [Inigo del Castillo / Lost at E Minor](https://time.com/author/lost-at-e-minor-zolton-zavos/) ## Inigo del Castillo / Lost at E Minor Oct 20, 2014 8:45 PM UTC by [Inigo del Castillo / Lost at E Minor](https://time.com/author/lost-at-e-minor-zolton-zavos/) ## Inigo del Castillo / Lost at E Minor Oct 20, 2014 8:45 PM UTC  _This_ [_article_](http://www.lostateminor.com/2014/10/09/chair-reveals-menacing-shadow-certain-times-day/) _originally appeared on_ [_Lost at E Minor_](http://www.lostateminor.com/)_._ Beware of this chair, for at first glance it might seem ordinary, but once light casts its shadow, a shadowy demon presents itself! ‘Coppelius Chair’ by designer Yaara Dekel is a piece of furniture that will not only scare you, but also make you think. It delves into Sigmund Freud’s concept of ‘the uncanny,’ that is to say, something as familiar as a chair can give off feelings of unfamiliarity at the same time. One moment, you’re looking at a chair, the next it’s a menacing face – but still the same chair! “However, at a certain hour of the day, when the room is lit, an inexplicable, monstrous projection appears, which symbolically ‘overshadows’ the feelings the original chair provokes,” as [DesignBoom ](http://www.designboom.com/design/yaara-derkel-coppelius-freud-the-uncanny-furniture-09-27-2014/)describes it. (via [Design Boom](http://www.designboom.com/design/yaara-derkel-coppelius-freud-the-uncanny-furniture-09-27-2014/))  'Coppelius Chair' by Yaara Dekel Oded Antman  'Coppelius Chair' by Yaara Dekel Oded Antman ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3525055/chair-reveals-shadow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3525055/chair-reveals-shadow/"},"headline":"Have a Seat This Halloween in a Chair That Casts a Spooky Shadow","datePublished":"2014-10-20T20:45:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:20.479Z","description":"Designer Yaara Dekel's ‘Coppelius Chair’ reveals a spooky shadow face","url":"https://time.com/3525055/chair-reveals-shadow/","keywords":["Fine Art","photography","furniture","halloween"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Inigo del Castillo / Lost at E Minor"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/fine-art/","name":"Fine Art"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3525055/chair-reveals-shadow/","name":"Have a Seat This Halloween in a Chair That Casts a Spooky Shadow"}}]}] ```