Essential Gear Guide » Furniture

Geo Cocktail Table – looks like it’s had one too many

craig — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:59:38 +0000

The wooden double helix of the Geo Cocktail Table by Vito Selma is a beautiful example of how you can add flavor to your home by electing to go beyond standard furniture. Not only is this coffee table perfect for any hard core geneticist, it’s chichi design from the Philippines will be sure to impress the boss’s art mongrel of a wife; and if you impress her, you impress him.

Designer Vito Selma is a full-time furniture designer and part-time photographer/interior designer; he also likes to blog.

Bookcase Door- strong silent type w/ something to hide

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:00:27 +0000

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I’m not sure how practical this is, but it’s extremely cool. The Bookcase Door System from Woodfold offers a unique space-saving option from closets and pantries to safes and hidden rooms; can’t find a suitable place for your bookcase, just park it in front of the doorway!
Woodfold’s Bookcase Doors are custom crafted to support up to 500 pounds, yet the heavy-duty roller system allows the bookcase to quietly open and close with a smooth easy motion. You can tell a lot about a person from their bookcase!

Accelerate- It’s Sofa King Cool

admin — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:27:32 +0000

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Perfect for high speed channel surfing!

Looking like the back end of a landspeeder, I like to call this the Star Wars Couch, although the designer, Philip Grass prefers to call it Accelerate. The above image is a digital prototype with the conceptual structure made of polyester resin, upholstered with polyurethane foam and topped with white leather.
If this ever goes into production, Philip better be careful that George Lucas doesn’t come after him for the rights.