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That is exactly what artist Jacob Tonski did for a recent installation that involved balancing a 19th century sofa upright on one leg. The result is Inception-like wonderment.

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So you can even push the sofa–just a bit–and watch as it rights itself. “I was wondering if it’s possible for anything to balance on a rigid fixed point,” Tonski tells Co.Design.