All Entries Tagged With: "cool furniture"

A Coffee Table With Dining Aspirations: The Basic Table

Too many guests coming for supper?  Time to put the Basic Table to work.  Don’t worry, we didn’t ask a programmer from 1979 to design our home fixtures – it’s just the name of this awesomely-designed, short-legged coffee table that can shift shape to a full-size dining area.
A sly dinner table in disguise, there’s absolutely nothing to clue anyone in that there’s more than a simple coffee table lying in your living room.  It’s one part awesome and one part disgusting.  The latter, by the way, is because you’ll be eating right where I put up my feet after I take off my shoes every night.  Don’t worry – I use foot powder by the pound.  I smell “almost” fresh.
The Basic Table comes in square and rectangular versions.  Square model measures 90 x 90 x 41 cm (L x W x H) in coffee table mode, expanding  to 180 x [...]

Babies Get Their Own Transforming Furniture With The 1,2,3 Soleil

Them little ones, they grow up so fast, don’t they?  Before you know it, you’re trying to find a way to get rid of their old cradle.  Not very long after, you’re calling up friends to unload the crib.   The 1,2,3 Soleil puts an end to wasting perfectly good baby furniture, turning out a convertible three-in-one that can work as a baby bed, a crib and a play table.
Created by Castor & Chouca, the piece literally stays with your child as he grows up.  It starts out life as a baby bassinet, with a clear plexiglass top and detachable, auto-locking casters.  Later, you can remove the tiny bed, replace it with a larger one sitting near the bottom and turn it into a crib.  Come the time that your child needs his own bed, you can graduate the crib into a junior desk.  Once he’s outgrown that too, you can [...]

Piece Your Own Furniture Together With The Jigsaw Puzzle Stool/Table

Want to turn your living room into a conundrum of tiles?  Throw enough of these Jigsaw Puzzle Stool/Table pieces out there and you’ll be in business.
On its own, one of these things would make for an odd-looking but functional stool, where you can put your legs up, plop your ass down or stand on top of while cleaning the ceiling with a broom (while wearing your French Maid outfit, of course).   Slap a few of them together, though, and you’ll turn up a unique-looking coffee table that you can configure to whatever size or shape you wish.
The Jigsaw Puzzle Stool/Table sports a basic stool framework for the legs and a precision die cut  jigsaw tile on top.  Made out of sheesham hardwood, each individual piece measures 14 x 22 x 17 inches (W x L x H).   The tabletops are designed to slot right into other tabletops of the same [...]

Wiege On Chair Lets You Burn More Calories While Working, Playing, Sleeping At Work

The life of the Office Drone isn’t the healthiest around.  Sitting in a comfy chair all day, you’re practically motionless, with only your hands moving majority of the time.  The On Chair looks to change that, allowing you a full range of bodily movements even while sitting.  That way, you’ll be burning calories while clocking in at work – all without ever seeing the insides of a gym.
Created by Wiege, it’s intentionally styled like a regular office chair at first glance.  Unlike them, however, it allows you to move body parts while your ass remains glued to the seat.  Fidget all you want – it self-balances so you never fall over.

The On Chair comes with a range of joints that allow the seat to tilt forwards, backwards and side-to-side.  That way, you can change sitting stances constantly, allowing you to burn just a few extra calories while typing a spreadsheet [...]

The Daily Shelter Hides A Secret Fort Within An Ordinary-Looking Table

Like to play fort, but don’t want visitors making fun of you for it?  Not a problem with the Daily Shelter, an ordinary-looking table that craftily hides an elusive, secret fort.
Created by artist Ingrid Brandth, it seems like a perfectly normal dining table at first glance.  Slide under it, however, and you’ll get access to a bevy of sliding and pop-up mechanisms that turn it into a veritable fort.  Yes, a completely private space where you can live in your own little world.  Your very cramped, own little world.
The Daily Shelter looks comfortable enough to fit a regular-sized kid.  Nerdy adults like you can probably fit in too, although comfort should fall far from your list of priorities.  With something that looks this good, you’ll probably end up battling with your kids and your dogs for use of the facilities, though, so be warned.
Currently a design concept, the piece appears [...]

The Transformers Home Edition: Roland Landsberg’s Boxetti Collection

The Boxetti Collection is like the Transformers of home furnishings.   In stealth mode, they look like a bunch of fancy-looking boxes.  Once you slide some compartments, pull out others and take out a few parts, however, they turn into functional home systems.
Dreamed up by designer Roland Landsberg, the collection is a showcase of minimalism – what else could be simpler than your entire house decked out in compact, solid blocks?  When you need to use each piece, simply roll out the modules like flipping blades off a Swiss Knife.  Easy peasy.

Easily the most awesome of the pieces is the Boxetti Thrill, a decked-out home entertainment system.  Compacted, it looks nothing more than an innocent closet (or a wild-looking fridge).  One punch on the remote, however, and the sliding door opens to reveal a woofer, a 7.1 channel receiver and a BD player.  Oh wait, it’s not yet done – there [...]

Do Hit Chair: Furniture You Can Smash Into Shape

Customizable chairs are awesome.  When the customization involves picking up a sledgehammer and smashing the furniture into your desired shape, it enters the realm of genius.  Not that the Do Hit Chair looks like anything I’d want to wish on my living room, but the thing looks hella fun.
Half-home fixture and half-concept art, the “furniture” is actually just a large stainless steel box that measures 40 x 28 x 30 inches.   It’s only 1.24mm thick, though, so you can pound it hard from all sides to turn it into an unrecognizable mass of deformed crap.   That resulting heap of junk is what you’re supposed to use as a chair.

The Do Hit Chair comes with its own long-handled, wide-headed sledgehammer that you can use  to mold it into your desired shape.  That is, if your desired shape for a seating equipment looks like it just came from the heap at the [...]

Ice Cream Bench Will Make Your House Guests Scream For Ice Cream

Want to leave your house guests hungry and hankering for ice cream?  Throw the Ice Cream Bench in your living room and you won’t need to do anything more.
Clad in the form of an ice cream sandwich, the yummy-looking bench sports a thick pile of frozen vanilla sweetness trapped between two slabs of chocolate wafers.  Mmmmm.  It’s the perfect way to feel even colder while staying in on an already freezing afternoon.
The Ice Cream Bench uses solid foam throughout its construction and measures 20 x 48 x 18 inches.  Vanilla ice cream center is covered in white velvet, while both top and bottom wafers are clad in dark brown canvas.  It sports short, stubby wooden legs.
If you’ve been looking for a way to jazz up a playroom or an entertainment space, this should prove an excellent piece of furniture to use as the centerpiece.  Just make sure to stock up [...]

Foosball Coffee Table: Set Your Drink, Put Your Feet Up, Play A Quick Game

Ever thought about scoring a foosball table, but can’t find the space in your house for it?  Trade in the four-legged slab in your living room for a Foosball Coffee Table and your dilemma is instantly solved.
A functional coffee table, it’s decked with a wooden frame and a sturdy glass surface for setting both old magazines and smelly feet on.  What sets it apart, of course, is the hollowed-out inside panel, which houses a full-featured, albeit smaller-sized, foosball game.  Measuring 47.5 x 28 x 20 inches and brandishing classic furniture aesthetics, it marries just the right size and looks to make for an attractive piece in any living area.
The Foosball Coffee Table comes in a solid poplar wood case and frame, topped with a tempered glass surface.  It uses three rods on either side to manage each team’s forwards, mid-fielders and defenders, with grip provided by handcrafted, solid wood handles.  [...]

Study Bed: Because Your Wall Bed Pales In Comparison

Busy on the computer one minute, idle the next?  Why waste more of your spare time on Twitter and Facebook, when you can just use that time to sleep?  The Study Bed gets that job done, transforming from a workspace to a sleeping area in one swift motion.
A clever space-saving solution for a bedroom and study room combo, the versatile fixture keeps everything clean and simple.  You don’t even have to remove a single item on the desk when you turn it into a bed, as the mattress rolls out without turning the table over.  As soon as you wake up in the morning, you simply fold the bed back in and resume work right where you left off.
Available in four different sizes (3 feet, 4 feet, 4 foot and 6 inches, and 5 feet), the Study Bed offers both adequate sleeping area and a very large desk, all without [...]

Homemade Donkey Kong Shelves Tilt Like Platforms In The Game, Surprisingly Keeps Items On Top

Oh, you thought your shelves were cool?  Well, it’s not Donkey Kong cool!
While it may not foster the best construction and design, these homemade Donkey Kong Shelves get it right anyway.  Mounted in tilting angles the same way they were set up in the game, they’re unmistakably lifted straight out of the classic platformer.
A perfect set of Donkey Kong Shelves would have been made of steel.  Since no one seems to be selling that, the imaginative (but, obviously, not-so-talented) DIYer fashioned the outfit directly from regular board shelves, painting it with alternating triangles to mimic the platform beams in the game.  Ladders were even added to further punctuate the effect.
To create the Donkey Kong aesthetic, the shelves were hoisted in uneven mounts, which should have been disastrous as shelving fixtures.  Somehow, someway, the dedicated fan seems to have managed to keep whatever stuff he puts on the planks from [...]

Authentic F-4 Ejection Seats Fashioned Into Office Chairs

Want to type your excel sheets at work all while feeling like you’re sitting at the helm of a warplane? Beg your boss to get you the F-4 Ejection Seat from MotoArt, which turns an authentic pilot’s chair on Vietnam-era F4 fighter jets into wheel-toting office buckets.
Despite brandishing “Ejection Seat” on its name, the metal-clad office furnishing can’t actually lift off. In fact, judging from how heavy all that steel looks, I doubt you can even pick it up with your paltry little arms.
Lack of ability to fly off the ground notwithstanding, it’s probably one of the coolest office chairs money can buy. It sports a fabricated and powder-coated aluminum base, accurate-to-the-detail bucket seats (default red racing upholstery, but you can customize to your preference) and a lowrider profile (hopefully, they added a way to pull it up to make it useful). The frames are left [...]

Nine Stories Elsie Series Touts Gorgeous Reclaimed Tables From Scrap Cars

Reclaimed scrap furniture seldom really looks all that appetizing.  After all, products designed with conservation and recycling in mind are typically geared towards utility, instead of style.  Nine Stories Furniture, on the other hand, revel in it – specifically picking out dead iron ravaged by the elements across salvage yards for their limited edition Elsie Series tables.
Producing artful home pieces from discarded sheet metal, Nine Stories makes full use of the unique colors and textures that years of sun and rain damage have inflicted on their chosen materials.  The result are stunningly creative pieces, with the expected  wear and tear (like rusting edges) lending the tables a completely unique character.
Using mostly roofs and other salvageable bodywork, they carefully remove each panel to preserve as much of the factory finish as possible.  They combine the aged sheets with a few modern components (about 70% of each piece is reclaimed), fashioning them [...]

F1-Inspired Formula Chair Gets You Racing Comforts Without The Bulk

Most any merchandise tied with F1 Racing typically looks busy or complicated.  Even something as simple as a jacket usually gets decked with a ton of innovative design cues and loaded with a never-ending supply of little details.  Don’t even get me started on home fixtures – carbon fiber and spare parts, anyone?
The Formula.Chair spares us from all the elaborate intricacies and dons an F1-inspired chair that’s as simple as can be.  It’s so unembellished, in fact, that you might even mistake it for one of those cheap plastic seaters you can find at Target.  If you make the mistake of leaving one at your grandparents’ house, I wouldn’t be surprised if they threw it in the bin, along with all the used clothes to give to charity.
In truth, though, the ultra-thin chairs mimic the shape of molded bucket seats found in F1 racing cars, while discarding everything else.  The [...]

Duffy London Shadow Chair Defies Gravity

I’ve seen folks try and implement floating chairs before, but never one that was this clever.  Called the Shadow Chair, the Duffy London creation is a seat that looks like it stands on two front legs with nothing else but air holding the rest of it.
How did they pull it off?  Most people think it’s hoisted up a wall, yet the Shadow Chair can stand pushed back in the corner just as well as in the center of the room.  Some little-known Physics then?  While that may be possible with the help of space-age tech, I’m afraid that would cost a tad too much for a piece of furniture.
Instead, the Shadow Chair uses a clever optical illusion that allows it to defy gravity.  That shadow on the floor?  It doesn’t actually exist – it’s a steel stand that serves as the chair’s base.  The metal extends into the frame of [...]

Amazing Modern Furniture

Remember when furniture pretty much all looked the same?  Sofas, armchairs, tables…sure, you could get different colors and some different designs, but when it came down to it, a sofa was a sofa.  However, in the world of modern furniture, this is certainly not true.  There are some amazingly designed pieces out there today, some of which are almost more like artwork than furniture.  Of course, some of these are just as uncomfortable to sit in as those old, hardwood chairs with the perfectly straight backs.  You know, the ones your grandparents always had at the dinner table.
When it comes to modern chairs, some don’t even look like they’re put together—they look like they’ve been sculpted from one piece of metal.  Others look like they’ve been grown.  These chairs are often made from trees like the Azelea and have been truly grown so that the branches form a back and [...]