Oh IKEA. We all love your cheap prices and great selection of furniture and doo-dads. Really, we do. I think we all just want your products to not fall apart after a few months. I hope it’s not too much to ask, especially with this ridiculous cardboard studio apartment you built in Brooklyn.

This 20′x20′ “apartment” was set up outdoors in Brooklyn to attract people to the new IKEA they just built there. IKEA is being very generous with its marketing. If I can recall, my first studio apartment was like 15′x17′ or something similar. Very small. I could probably fit a bed, a chair and one of those $15 breakable coffee tables in there. I’d imagine IKEA did much better with its living space.

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Erik Olofson is probably the coolest dad a kid could ask for. He’s a craftsman by trade and owns Big Cozy Books, a company that’s going to make a fortune off your kids. BCB designs and manufactures huge book-themed furniture that is intricately detailed and very swanky. Don’t show your children or they’ll be begging you for one until they’re 13.

What I want to know is how the hell did Storybook Land never have one of these things? If you’ve never heard of Storybook Land, try googling it. Proof I’m not wacked out on coffee! Huzzah!

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Straight out of the Beetlejuice film comes Dust Furniture, an acid-trip take on real furniture except for one thing: you can’t put books on it. Well, certain shelves seem straight but if you check out the gallery there are tons of these designs which aren’t practical shelving space.  That’s alright though, as Dust Furniture is completely for show. Having guests for dinner who do nothing but comment on your curvy furniture? Dose them with acid - the shelves will straighten themselves.

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If you’re like me, constantly looking to buy furniture for the house that is not only cheap and tacky  but also expensive, Jellio’s line of squirt gun tables is that and so much more. At $325 the “Candy table” is a ordinary glass table, hollowed out and filled with squirt gun tanks from your favorite Super Soaker squirt guns growing up. Now, while sitting at your squirt gun table, you’ll reminisce of your youth when you didn’t have a care in the world.

Then you’ll over analyze your position in life today and try to kill yourself over nostalgia.

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German design firm Finite Elemente clearly has minimalism on the mind. This Modular Furniture System it offers is designed to promote entertainment and get you laid. Slide open one of the many drawers and you’ll find organizational tools like a wine rack and a slanted CD drawer.

Though the unknown price is sure to be costly, this furniture system is sure to turn your home into your own personal IKEA. Don’t act surprised when guests start demanding 50-cent hot dogs and swedish meatballs. With great design comes great responsibility. After the jump, more photos:

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Most people have some sort of junk drawer in their home where they throw all sorts of random shit that has no home anywhere else. Rummaging through a junk drawer is typically a damn good time to kill an hour or so, especially when it’s someone else’s. After all, you never know what the hell you’re going to find (and possibly horde for yourself.)

The Fractal Furniture is a cubed multi-drawer contraption which allows you to separate your crap into 23 individual nooks rather than one massive stock pile. Perhaps you could divvy up your junk drawer by category; one drawer for spare change, one for stationary, etc., so on and so forth. At least you can add some sort of organization to the mayhem. (more…)

One day, we fear that giants will attack us from the mountains. If they are to attack and see us using furniture that they could only use in their fantasies, they are going to be pissed off. On the other hand, if they see a Brass Knuckle Chair, they might just be convinced your out to help their cause, rather than taunt them with you furniture ableness.

On the other hand, this chair is also a great way to set those cocky-ass ottoman’s in their place. Who do they think they are? They’re barely furniture! — Andrew Dobrow

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This multi-functional furniture/personal workstation is a perfect piece of gear for a gamer’s home (compared to the best piece of head-to-head gaming system or this gaming system for quadriplegics). The Battle-Rig Pro allows you to sit in the center of the action, with all you need right around you.

The Battle-Rig provides plenty of space for all your equipment and you can even choose the color of the desk to match your decor. Even better, it doesn’t look like an automatic decapitation machine the First Person Pinball Furminator. — Andrew Dobrow

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If I had this many blank CDs, I wouldn’t know what to do with them either. The Panda Chair is made from a simple base, and assembled with hundreds of blank CDs. Of course, if you want to make one yourself it’s up to you if they’re blank or just a bunch of Avril Lavigne albums.

It looks really cool. It was recently being displayed at the Nude Pavilion for the International Furniture Fair of Valencia. Maybe Sony should start up a furniture line? I’d buy it. — Andrew Dobrow

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In honor of the old Mouse Pad Sofa, this Mac II sofa looks mighty uncomfortable. We doubt this couch was made for sitting anyway. Constructed using 20 Mac II computers, this couch is up for sale in Maryland Heights, Missouri.

If you add together the prices for 20 Mac II top of the line PC’s, this thing could fetch for over $100,000. Hardly worth it at all. $5,000 and we have a deal. I’d proudly display it in my office. — Andrew Dobrow

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