Sometimes, your wall shelves are very useful. Other times, they just remain barren and empty. You like to change things up that way. Problem is, you wish you can just get rid of shelves when you feel like it without having to plug the holes and repaint them. Well,you can do just that with the Klaffi, a foldable wall shelf system. Instead of removing the shelves when you don’t want to use them, though, you just fold them in using [...]
Digging sites and construction sites need to get themselves some lighting, too. And while there are plenty of industrial lighting solutions out there, we can’t help but feel none of them are anywhere near as suited to the surroundings as this floor lamp called The Worker. Described as a “functional sculpture,” it’s created by artist Pascal Howe, who claims it was inspired while shopping around for a turntable. We’re not exactly sure what a turntable has to do with [...]
Your kids already turn the living room coffee table into their play area. Might as well get a coffee table designed to double as a real doll house/multi-level dungeon fortress. That will be the Qubis Haus. Created by Amy Whitworth Design, it’s a wooden coffee table that’s styled as a multi-level dollhouse for kids to play in. While it looks just like a fancy, artsy living room furniture at first glance, it’s actually been designed to facilitate play with a [...]
Buying a high chair for your toddler is always a tricky purchase. Chances are, they’ll outgrow it pretty quickly, requiring you to purchase a new one within a short time. If you’re going to buy your child a high chair, might as well get them one they can use throughout their childhood, right? That’s exactly what the Froc gets you. Designed by Slovenian outfit Gigodesign, it’s a high chair that can be adjusted and modified to be usable for all [...]
Looking for a rack to hang your cowboy outfit (and, yes, you’re still a cowboy even if you wear fancy hats)? Well, we can’t imagine a more fitting piece than Catching the Wild, a coatrack that looks like one of those lassos cowboys swing in the air to rope in cattles and horses held in suspended animation. Designed by German duo Johannes Hemann and Kai Linke, the still-life furniture is styled as a thick loop of rope that looks like [...]
I guess we’re still a couple years away from functional beds and couches made entirely from LEGO. While waiting for those, maybe we can light up our bedrooms with these LEGO Table Lamps to tide us over. Created by LEGO Certified Professional Sean Kenney, it’s a lighting furniture built entirely from LEGO bricks. Well, not entirely — the shade isn’t LEGO and the electric parts obviously aren’t either. Still, this is as much LEGO as you can realistically slap onto a [...]
You had serious hots for that NES Controller Coffee Table. Unfortunately, the fancy gaming-inspired furniture piece didn’t quite fit into your budget, which is why you still have the same cocktail table you traded for an old game console from a dude on Craigslist. Well, here’s another retro tech-themed coffee table you probably can’t afford: the Floppytable. Created by Berlin design firm Neulant van Exel, the living room piece comes with a top styled to look like a 3.5-inch floppy [...]
Casters are the unsung hero of the office. Screwed at the base of office chairs, they give office drones the ability to slide from one place to another without bothering to get up. While regular furniture casters do the job just fine, isn’t it high time we gave that bastion of utility the makeover it deserves? Well, that’s pretty much what the Zerocaster ZC070 is trying to achieve. A replacement caster for office chairs and other furniture, it sheds the [...]
Need a wall shelf with a little more personality than the usual generic slabs of wood you can get at IKEA? How about this Urban Shelf, which takes a miniature fire escape and turns it into a functional storage area. Got a bunch of action figures looking for a home? This looks like the perfect place to showcase them. Imagine a fire escape scene with your Ninja Turtles action figures battling four Freddy Kruegers in a nightmarish setting. Or Batman [...]
You like to pretend you’re a musician of sorts when bringing girls over. But you can’t actually play, whether it be an instrument, a music-making software or one of those electronic thingamajigs. As such, you fill up your house with music-related items (like a Marshall Fridge, a Flipper Spatula and a vintage Les Paul with all the strings removed), so you can look the part without actually getting asked to play anything. May we recommend adding this TR-808 Beanbag to [...]
Do you have often have visitors? Do they frequently have change in their pockets? If you say “yes” to both, then you must have them sit in the Artful Dodger, a rocking chair that doubles as a petty thief, collecting lose coins as they fall off people’s pockets. Since it’s a rocking chair, it’s almost guaranteed that people will rock themselves back and forth on it. And since that rocking motion will cause whatever’s in their pocket to get jumbled, [...]
I’ve been to many offices over the last few years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one that encouraged employees to take those so-called “power naps.” For one, it’s not a pretty sight, watching an entire floor of people taking zzzzs in the middle of the workday. More importantly, much of the appeal of office hour catnaps are due to the sneaky nature of it — you’re literally enjoying sleep while the company pays you by the hour. That’s [...]
So, your bed turns into a sofa. Whoopee. Your dining table has its own sink? Congratulations. But what is you wanted to add another space saving furniture item in your already awesome apartment?Well, you might want to look at the Story, a sofa that doubles and triples as a host of other home furniture. A project study by Fanny Adam from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), it’s a sofa built specifically for tiny urban dwellings. As a [...]
If you have pets in the house, they need a place to call their own. Otherwise, they’ll just infringe on your space, jumping in your bed while you’re resting or sleeping on your lap while watching shows on your Sony Ultra HD TV. The Dog House Sofa seeks to give your mutt their own space, all without adding any unsightly items in the house. Made by Korean pet-centric brand mPup and designed by Seungji Mun, the seating furniture features an [...]
Height adjustable chairs, especially ones for office use, are plenty common. What we seem to be missing, though, are height-adjustable tables that your kids can use as a play table in the morning and you can use to work on a laptop later in the night. That’s the gap the Takka Stool Set appears to be looking to fill. Designed by Agnieszka Mazur, it’s a three piece set consisting of a small round table and a pair of stools, all [...]
Remember the Table & Tennis conference table? As awesome as that was, it was a one-off, so you couldn’t buy one even if you manage to convince the purchasing manager to get one for the boardroom. Fortunately, someone else stepped up to offer a similarly-rigged office furniture for the rest of us: the Ping Pong Conference Table. The double-duty boardroom workhorse won’t just serve as a functional place to hold your meetings, as you can use it to settle disputes with [...]
Sometimes, you just want to hit the rugged trails, find a peaceful spot in the woods and work on a spreadsheet. Because that’s how you roll. While that’s normally not an option since there’s no power in the wild, it will be when you travel with a Kanz Field Power Desk. Literally capable of turning any patch of land into a makeshift personal office, it’s a pop-up work table with a built-in power source. That way, you don’t have to [...]
We usually do all our work from one work table at home. Need to type something up to send to the UK headquarters over the weekend? Do it there. Need to look over blueprints and take notes? Do it there. Want to cut out magazine pictures to make a vision board? Dude, you’re cornier than One Direction singing a Jay-Z song, but do it there. That’s kind of the reasoning behind the AdapTable, a work desk that you can quickly [...]
An outdoor bed is great. Until it rains. Or until the clouds disappear at high noon and the sun shines its intense torch. The Kettal Cottage prepares for those situations, bringing a slatted roof that makes it perfect for use in nearly all weather conditions. Designed by Milan-based Patricia Urquiola for furniture company Kettal, it’s, basically, a mini-cottage that houses nothing but a bed. Instead of a solid roof, it uses slats that can be opened and closed just like [...]
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