At what point are you willing to sacrifice aesthetics for functionality? It's a question all of us need to answer for ourselves, as that intersection point between pure desire and pure need is too individual for any designer to map universally.
As a personal example, I find the aesthetics of Folditure's Leaf Chair, which we got a glimpse of back in June, a bit jarring. But as soon as I saw the video of how it worked, I got turned around on it:
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