We keep a special place in our hearts for analog clocks. Even though we have the time on every piece of household electronics these days (heck, even my electric fan shows the time), having a huge clock somewhere around the house still makes sense somehow. If you like to keep a small clock on the coffee table, too, why not trade that in for this Analog Clocktail Table. Instead of putting a clock on the table, it puts a clock [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A long time ago in a land far, far away, a giant came down from his home in the heavens bringing a giant crate filled with giant bottles of wine to share with the puny humans in the land down below. They partied, got drunk and got a little rowdy through the course of the night, eventually breaking the bottles and leaving nothing but the corks behind. Those corks have now made their way to the internet and are sold [...]
We love the Zesch Coasters’ obviously ninja star-inspired looks. Functional coasters plus ninja weapons definitely sound like a sterling combination. But, alas, it gets better. Designed by Michiel Cornelissen, each coaster isn’t confined to keeping your glasses and mugs from leaving stains on the table all by itself. Instead, the coasters can be connected to each other in a hexagonal grid just like a jigsaw puzzle, allowing you to form them into a variety of shapes and sizes for whatever [...]
We like it when stuff does other stuff that it isn’t supposed to. Like helicopters that are also cars. Or surfboard bags that are also tents. Or soup mugs that can also hold crackers. And we love the Little Oyster Coffee Table for those same multi-purpose talents. Designed by Al-Hamad Design, the transforming table sports a simple boxy shape that should make it useful either as a side table or a coffee table. While the design is rather simple and [...]
Cassette tapes, along with ghetto blasters and Sony’s Walkman, beautifully represent how people consumed their music in the 80s. So it’s not surprising a lot of today’s designers are incorporating those iconic objects into their creations. This gorgeous Mixtape Table has to be one of the darling examples. Made by Jeff Skierka, it’s a coffee table clad in the iconic form of a cassette tape. And he stays faithful, recreating the old media in detail, complete with fake tape running [...]
Looking for a new living room piece to replace that aquarium coffee table you just broke? Consider the Legion Pallet Table, which looks like a cross between a coffee table, a push cart and a shipping pallet. Made by… uhh… Made.com, each hand-crafted furniture is built off the wood from used shipping pallets. It comes complete with the original travel stamps and whatever distresses the wood has received over the course of its previous life, making for a unique living [...]
A labyrinth aquarium sitting on a table pushed up to the wall is nice. You don’t look at it all that much, though, since you’re not too fond of looking away from the TV while you’re lazing it up on the couch. You won’t have that problem with the Midwest Tropical 675 Aqua Coffee Table. Instead of having your fish tank pushed off to one end of the room, this dual-purpose coffee table and aquarium puts it right in front [...]
Don’t have space for a home office? Not a problem with the Convertible Coffee Table, which extends into a functional work desk so you can turn the living room into a makeshift office without having to hunch your back. Designed for folks who get an inkling to work a computer while watching Oprah, the coffee table’s surface can be lifted to standard desk height. While it looks a little uncomfortable from the picture (I blame the angle), the sales page [...]
Folding coffee tables are nothing new. In fact, you’ve probably seen your share of them. But still every time we see a new one, its like awesomeness all over again. The Grand Central functions in a similar way, offering a full-fledged coffee table that folds up into a bundle you can stow inside a closet for easy storage. The brainchild of designers Sanna Lindström and Sigrid Strömgren, the tabletop features a folding structure based on a pop-up map of New [...]
Why buy magazine racks, remote docks and other storage solutions for the living room when you can use the couch to hold them all in? That’s exactly what backpack moguls Eastpak and designers Quinze & Milan appear to be saying with their new couch, which comes with loads and loads of zippered pockets to hold every knick-knack imaginable. Reading materials? Put it in the sofa. AV equipment? Throw it in there too. Chargers? Children’s toys? Pet droppings? Yep, there’s ample [...]
I hate canned drinks. My hands are already clammy to begin with, so I don’t need no cold beer to drench it. That’s why the Can Grip sounds like a godsend, giving that inconvenient vessel mug-like handling powers. Designed to snap onto standard 12oz cans, the contraption not only adds a plastic handle for your gross-sounding Watermelon Wheat Beer, it also appends a coaster at the bottom of the can. No more wet palms and no more rings on [...]
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