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Tag Archives: Furniture

Bookends No More With This Angled Shelf

By David Ponce on 11/28/12 • Leave a comment!

We like functional design. That’s a design that looks cool, but does more than just look cool, like the Lean Bookshelf above. Featuring a modular set of stackable segments, the bookshelf requires no bookends since the books it holds are stacked at an angle; gravity takes care of keeping them upright, albeit not quite vertical. It’s a quirky design, one that we wouldn’t mind seeing in our living spaces. That’s of course because we still own dead tree books. You know the ones: they require no batteries! Yeah… those.

We don’t have pricing information on account of this being a South Korea design studio, Monocomplex, whose website appears to be down at the moment.

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The iRock Is An iPad Dock With Rocking Chair Built Around It

By David Ponce on 11/02/12 • Leave a comment!

This is a rocking chair. We think people who like rocking chairs will dig it. Unlike a regular such piece of furniture though, this one has a few tricks up its sleeve. For one, it has an extendable boom which features an iDevice dock. Clearly an iPad would be more adapted to the intended use here, but an iPhone of iPod will work too. Once connected, you can playback amplified sound through both of the 25W speakers located on either side of the backrest. And better yet, a connected generator will make electricity with every rocking motion, recharging up to 35% of an iPad’s battery in one hour.

Of course a fancy pants rocking chair that doubles as a recharging iDevice doesn’t come cheap: you’ll pay $1,300 for the privilege of owning it.

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The Fibonacci Cabinet Tickles Our Math Bone

By David Ponce on 10/29/12 • Leave a comment!

The Fibonacci Sequence or the Fibonacci Numbers are arguably one of the most significant series not just in mathematics, but also in the natural world. If you’re uninitiated, the series goes 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13… Each successive number is arrived by adding the two preceding it. And it’s important because it surfaces time and time again in nature, such as in the “branching of trees, the arrangement of leaves on a stem, the fruitlets of a pineapple, the flowering of artichoke or an uncurling fern, and the arrangement of a pine cone.” The cabinet you see above is inspired by the Chinese medicine cabinet, only instead of having drawers all the same size, each of the seven drawers here is sized after a number in the sequence. Made of bamboo, each drawer is independent and the entire cabinet can be rearranged at will.

We love it.

We don’t know how much it is, but it apparently can be bought and is made to order. Hit the jump for a bunch more pictures and links.

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Blackhawk Secretary Trunk Is An Office In A Case

By David Ponce on 10/24/12 • Leave a comment!

This made the rounds back in March, and we missed it. Shame on us, because the Blackhawk Secretary Trunk is pretty badass. It’s a six foot tall case that contains everything necessary to setup an office. Think of it as a giant road case (like those from travelling rock shows), only wrapped in pre-stressed aluminum and rivets, to give it that mid-20th century aircraft look. The “pre-stressed” part just means they banged on it to artificially age it and make it look like it’s been to a few places. Truth be told, at 525lbs, there’s no chance we’re going to actually, you know, go anywhere with it. But we sure as heck wouldn’t mind decking out our headquarters with these… if only they didn’t cost $4,295.

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Smart Bra Monitors Your Mammaries for Signs of the Big C

By Hazel Chua on 10/16/12 • Leave a comment!

Smart Bra

The earlier you catch it, the better your chances of treating it and living a longer life. I’m talking about the Big C. Every year, over 50,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer–and a number of them will end up succumbing to the disease, depending on what stage their cancer is and on their overall health.

This is why I think the Breast Tissue Screening Bra is such a wonderful project! It’s a smart bra that’s equipped with sensors that can measure small temperature changes as they occur. The temperature spikes could mean nothing, but they could be caused by the growth of blood vessels which signal the growth of tumors. The sensors will take note of the chronology of cell cycles and use a pattern recognition system combined with statistical analysis software to pinpoint tumors even before mammograms can detect them.

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Eastpak Backpack Sofa Has Pockets to Stash All Your Extra Stuff

By Hazel Chua on 10/01/12 • Leave a comment!

Backpack Couch

In this day and age, there’s really no such thing as having too much space. You’ve probably accumulated a whole lot of crap stuff over the years and renting storage spaces nowadays isn’t really as cheap as it used to be. So why not pack on more of your baggage into your furniture? It’s normally impossible to do so but not if you’ve got the Eastpak Sofa.

It’s covered in the same material that your backpack is made from and then some. That’s because the sofa looks like it’s got a couple of backpags and pouches sewn onto it to make space for all the little things that you haven’t found an alternative space for. Magazines? Pens? Remote controls? Headphones? Even random foodstuffs like candy and gum? There’s room for all that and more on the Eastpak. Your chair, your rules.

Hit the break for a couple more images of the sofa followed by links on where to get it!

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Pac-Man Table Is Retro Chic That Would Look Good In Your Living Room

By David Ponce on 09/14/12 • Leave a comment!

When looking for design themes to deck your place out with, you can rarely go wrong with retro gaming. 8-bit characters, Space Invaders, Pong… everyone’s welcome, and especially Pac-Man. One Thanasis Mokas, a woodworker, feels the same way and he’s put his money where his mouth is by creating the above coffee table. While it’s far from being the first such table, we like the way Thanasis has put it together and the care he’s taken to match colours and make some stools to go along with it. We only wish we knew if it can even be bought; Thanasis created his Facebook page on September 5 and it only features pictures of things he’s made and no purchase information. Still, more pictures and a link to the page are after the jump, so you could always go ask him about it.

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The Paq Chair Is Also A Bed

By David Ponce on 08/21/12 • Leave a comment!

Living in cramped quarters means doing all manners of space saving sacrifices, and having a guest over in a studio apartment often means someone sleeps on the ground. But it doesn’t have to be that way; ugly inflatable mattresses aren’t the only solution. The Paq chair is a creative piece of furniture that doubles as a bed when it’s not being used as a chair. The foam mattress wraps around a hard cylindrical core and when one side is pushed down and in, becomes a suitable chair. Not only does it look relatively stylish, it performs two functions, saving space.

You can get yours for $160 to $187.

Hit the jump for a video of it in action, and links.

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PLY90 Brackets: For The “That’s About Right” Carpenter

By David Ponce on 08/16/12 • 2 Comments

Making your own furniture can be considered an art, we suppose. Heck, we sometimes wonder how good Jesus was… But that’s a question for another day. The point is, making tables and chairs and things is fairly hard, yo. You have to measure right, angle cuts precisely, and do a number of fairly complex things so that your final product doesn’t crumble into a big pile of plywood on first use. Or… you can use the PLY90 bracket. It’s a 90-degree-angle piece of metal that attaches to plywood of varying sizes and angles the pieces perpendicular to each other. This way you can just cut your boards with more relaxed tolerances, and assemble all manner of furniture with ease. Chairs, desks, shelves, benches… all of it becomes a matter of cutting some board, and connecting the pieces with the PLY90. Tightening of this connector is done through a central lug nut, using a simple 3/16 Allen key; the PLY90 does’t even require drilling.

We like it a lot! It’s a smart, elegant way to make your own things, and the final product has an industrial chic that we really dig. It’s not super cheap though: 4 connectors are $45, 8 for $80, 16 for $139, and 50 for $375. It’s a pre-order on Kickstarter, with shipping in November if fully funded.

Hit the jump for a bunch more pictures of things you can make with it, and links.

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