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With a soft grey non slip suede leather base, zip closure and generously filled with beans." For more choices, head below! Longwool Sheepskin Beanbag Chair Here's a US source for a very similar bag like that one on top. Originally discovered at Thomas O'brien's Aero in NYC, this Texas based company makes both short and long wool bags in large and jumbo. Check out the pic below. (Image credit: Celeb TX) (Image credit: Little Red Stuga) Kebnekaise Pouf - €177 Made of 100% organic cotton, Kebnekaise is a knitted pouf and the highest mountain in Sweden at 2100 m (situated in the north of Sweden). Don't just sit down, climb a mountain! (Image credit: PB Teen) Ivory Furlicious Faux Fur Beanbags - $89 From PBTeen a super affordable faux fur hangout zone. The cover is made of acrylic and removable for washing. Plush beanbag inserts are eco-friendly and filled with up to 30% recycled polystyrene. (Image credit: Ambient Lounge) Ambient Lounge Acoustic Sofa - $265
A great variation on the traditional beanbag chair, the Ambient Lounge has an inner core that allows it to retain its upright shape while still retaining a beanbag pedigree. It comes in many colors and fabrics, but I love the Eco Weave version above. Fatboy Marimekko - $329 From the famous new beanbag makeover guru, Jukka Setälä, Fatboy was created in Finland as the beanbag from the 21st century. This version sports bold Marimekko fabric on coated nylon filled with virgin polystyrene beads, but it comes in many shapes, sizes and colors. (Image credit: My Rest Woodnotes) Woodnotes My Rest - $1,002 From Ulla Koskinen in Sweden, this beanbag collection has a more sophisticated, elegant shape as well as Woodnotes fabric which is made of paperyarn and cotton. "Soft but sturdy, My is designed for casual, relaxed seating. The cover is completely removable and changeable made with ecofriendly Sand fabric, a paperyarn and cotton blend. The material is dustless and antistatic and supplied with soil-repellent treatment.
The filling of these practical chairs is a mixture of materials that is guaranteed to stay in shape." Grand Luxe Faux Fur Beanbag Chair - $199 on sale now RH does a wonderful job with faux fur. It's a heavy, warm and lifelike. Their beanbag collection builds on it and comes with a nice price (particularly right now). Made of finely spun acrylic/polyester. Self-tie muslin liner keeps loose beans contained. Yogibo - From $89 A very newcomer to the category, Yogibo offers a number of improvements to the beanbag concept which are usually overlooked. → Previous Review and video here Made of super lightweight mini-beads and a warm and stretchy fabric shell (that zips off for cleaning), the yogibo bags are remarkably comfortable, stretchable and fun to sit in. They are like the memoryfoam mattress of the beanbag world and a favorite with adults, children and their therapists who recommend them for sensory soothing needs.San Francisco has been taken over by techies—and more than it already is on any regular day.
But it’s not because of an iPhone event or some other breathless product reveal. Dreamforce, a week-long conference put on by enterprise giant Salesforce CEO and notable philanthropist Marc Benioff, has eaten the city again. It’s hard to overstate how massive the conference is. The annual event, now in its 13th year, draws 160,000 attendees—about a fifth of San Francisco’s population—all hoping to network and strike deals with other enterprise companies. Some of tech’s biggest VIPs—including the CEOs of Uber, YouTube and Microsoft—spoke at Dreamforce this year. But its influence reaches well beyond the borders of tech—a testament to how the tech industry now has the power to lure even the biggest mainstream celebrities. The conference included appearances by boldfaced names in sports (executives from the Golden State Warriors and the San Francisco Giants), Hollywood (Jessica Alba, Goldie Hawn, Gayle King), along with concerts by John Legend, The Foo Fighters, and The Killers.
"We could be closing deals right here as we bead—why not?" In other words, Dreamforce is all about scale. Salesforce doesn’t skimp on the rhetoric, either. “It’s a completely immersive experience,” Julie Liegl, Dreamforce conference chair, tells WIRED. “We don’t just want to engage their minds, we want to engage the entire person. That’s why Dreamforce’s values are innovation, impact, giving back and fun.” Of course, an event this big costs lots of money, and each year, the City of San Francisco welcomes the economic influx with open arms. In 2014, according to San Francisco Travel, Dreamforce generated about $226 million for the local economy. With many of the city’s hotels booked at full capacity, Salesforce even brought in a cruise ship to accommodate more bodies. The 965-foot-long Dreamboat, docked at San Francisco’s Pier 27, provided an additional 1,073 cabins, priced at $250 to $2000 per night. It too is sold out—and it has sparked the ire of at least one local watchdog group aiming to protect the waterfront from unseemly development.
“So far, we’re pleased that the Salesforce team is trying to control the noise,” says Stan Hayes, president of the Telegraph Hill Dwellers. “But our concern is if this is done repeatedly, there could be de facto hotels springing up in violation of the city’s ban on it.” But perhaps the most visible display of Dreamforce’s pull is its ability to literally stop traffic (well, while creating more elsewhere). A full block of Howard Street, a major thoroughfare in the South of Market district, has been closed off for the week. Workers have laid synthetic grass down on the cement, dotted it with colorful beanbag chairs, added outdoor games, and erected concert stages. On nearby blocks, businesses rented out whole restaurants and bars to give their employees—and their networking contacts—reprieve from the crowded halls of the cavernous Moscone Center, the main site of the conference. So-called Dreamforce “ambassadors” are trained for hours and do multiple walkthroughs of the space ahead of the conference so they can give proper directions to the unwieldy throng of attendees.
Benioff, well known for his admiration of the Dalai Lama and an avid meditation practitioner, also imbues the event with a certain Left Coast mysticism: on Friday, the final day of the conference, for example, an entire keynote was dedicated to fostering mindfulness. To be sure, the B2B deals struck at Dreamforce are a big deal. For evidence, look no further than the immense business of Salesforce itself: Its market cap now stands at around $45 billion, and Microsoft at one point reportedly tried to buy the company, though negotiations ultimately fell through after cost-related roadblocks. In spite of the enormity of the event and its headliners, however, Dreamforce stands largely separate from those not involved. If you took Burning Man and gave everyone clothes, and all the conversations were about cloud computing, you basically have Dreamforce. — Aaron Levie (@levie) September 15, 2015 , and Sarah Rosenwinkel, executive director of business development at analytics and insights firm Gravy, discarded their Dreamforce-branded shoulder-slung messenger bags on fake grass to play a game of chess on a giant outdoor set.
The two hadn’t met before, but both had come to Dreamforce in past years and were here to network and see if they could strike up new partnerships with strangers. After the game, Jabbour explained, he would try to see if there were any opportunities that Rosenwinkel’s company could provide his business. “We want to identify potential strategic partners because we want to exploit certain areas of the business,” he said. “She said analytics, and I’m going to follow that. I don’t know who she is but I’m going to find out what that means when we talk business.” Nearby, on hammocks and on beanbags, conference-goers took short naps with their hoodies covering their faces to shield them from the sun. A small group huddled around a table stocked with beads, their heads bent down over the work. “We could be closing deals right here as we bead—why not?” one woman who worked with Salesforce told me. Elsewhere, groups of businessmen and businesswomen played cornhole.