Meaning 2

Representational

The designer of this chair created a chair that represents an octopus.  From looking at the chair the viewer can see the back of the chair is the top of the octopuses head.  While the rest of the octopus body is used as the back legs of the chair.  

Abstract

Although the body of the octopus is not abstracted in the sense it is simplified.  Instead the octopus’s body is abstracted into a chair which leaves the octopus very realistic looking.  Leaving the viewer wondering if it really is a chair.  This was done by cutting the octopuses body in half and abstracting the back half of the animal into a suitable chair for a person.

Symbolic

While many people not might know this.  I grew up fishing on the open ocean, and an octopus is considered to be one of the great mysteries of the sea.  They symbolize great intelligence, illusion, and magic.