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What do you guys think of this sculpture that I'm going to be making for my 3-D fundamentals class? It's supposed to be a sculptural chair. I'm going to have the back of the chair be a guillotine and the seat will be a basket with a relief sculpture or a person's head.

For those of you who don't know what a guillotine is:
http://www.metaphor.dk/guillotine/Pages/Gallery.html

What could the arms of the chair be?

Btw, I'm going to make it a functional guillotine, meaning, it works (there will be a pully system). It will be made mostly of wood and the blade will be out of sheet metal. The basket will be a regular straw basket and the relief of the head will be ceramic or plaster... or wax.

What are you going for--functional, or ornate?

These would fit with the design on the pics of guillotines you linked to: http://www.art6.net/arteso/1thrones.shtml

They're very plain, however. If you want something more ornate, you might look at a few chairs from the gothic period, such as this one: http://hal.lamar.edu/~eisensl/sjeslides/29GothicCoronationchair.jpg

The lines are nice, and would go well, I think, with a chair that was also a guillotine.

You might also consider a roman style of chair arms, although it seems a bit decorative to use for that purpose: http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/teach/roman/offweb/lester/images/Early.Christian.Period/Romanesque/H165.jpg

oooh sounds gory! I like! DO IT!