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C THOSE hair ish W e rarely laugh w i t h c o m p l e t e abandon, but when we happened upon actress Samantha Mathis' Instagram post announcing her upcoming flick By Design, we couldn't stop. The summary: A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair. Genius. Why didn't we come up with that. Writer-director Amanda Kramer did, and we can't wait for a seating. Juliette Lewis, Melanie Griffith, and Mamoudou Athie also star in the film, and as we go to press, it's making the film festival circuit. In the meantime, we've put our own spin on the premise and queried some of our favorite designers for a PaperCity mash- up, inquiring: If you were a chair ... which would you be? We By Billy Fong and Caitlin Hsu. Illustrations Jorge Arévalo. 38