The Continental Breakfast Chair is a piece of furniture that was created as part of an art installation by the Meredith Rosen Gallery in New York. It is a uniquely-shaped chair that has become a cultural phenomenon, sparking discussions, memes, and even confusion. The chair is designed to represent a modern object conceived as the perfect seat for a controversial human meal, where the meal is a sexual act, and the “food” is the woman, suddenly transformed into an object. The artist said the Continental Breakfast Chair stages an act of submission, where a woman becomes the symbol of passive submission, and the eater is the one in control. The name “Continental Breakfast” speaks specifically to the body as an asset to modify and control, and it’s a metaphor for how we relinquish autonomy to user-friendly technologies. The chair stages an act of submission, where a woman becomes the symbol of passive submission. As described in the press release, the body is “willfully supported, entrapped, pampered, and ultimately rendered useless, all while on view for public consumption” .