Finally a controller only the great Andre the Giant could comfortably handle. Inspired directly by Kyle Downes’ NES coffee table, Matt LaBoone worked all summer on this impressively gigantic SNES controller. I can’t imagine having a group of friends sitting around this thing each contributing their part to one button as they mash away while playing Street Fighter 2.
This piece of shiny goodness is the product of one Lee J. Rowland, an engineer from the UK. He’s producing some of these fantastic-looking coffee tables that are made from 394 precision-engineered spheres. Each sphere is 70mm in diameter and can be polished to create the tinted glass top you see above. It’s gorgeous, no doubt, but furniture like this does not come cheap. Expect a 10-12 week waiting time after plunking down $45,000 for one of these.
Here’s something else, furniture called Ripple Series that imitates rippling mercury just like the Vertibral seating imitates spinal structure. It’s from designer Lee J. Rowland who happens to also be an aerospace engineer. And it shows with this out of this world furniture design that uses a three-dimensional machining process along with sheet metal to make these one of a kind desktops.
It’s no surprise these tables are also astronomical in price, ranging from $45,000 to $268,000. Yowza. Impressive Lee, but no thanks, I’d rather buy a condo then put a bunch of furniture made out of corks in it.
Oh shit, get on those pro flip cup gloves, we got ourselves a game of beer pong that isn’t all fun and games on your Nintendo Wii. It’s Port-O-Pong, the amphibious portable beer pong table.
OK, so it’s just a fucking raft with some grooves for the cups that completely eliminate the chances of cups toppling over from a fast ball throw. Half of beer pong is trying to knock your opponents cups over so they’re force to lick the beer off the table. It sucks for the suckers, but hey, it’s house rules. For $54.95, buy a rickety wooden table and some plastic cups instead of this spill-proof raft that ruins beer pong altogether. Seriously what is a beer pong match without beer spilling everywhere? Leisurely drinking, that’s what.
Blood drips, poker and sex. What do these three things have in common?
Answer: A table. It’s called “Paint Or Die But Love Me” and freaks me the fuck out. Just like these make me want to piss my pants in terror.
Joseph Keenan was sick and tired of run-of-the-mill furniture in his household. So, he designed versatile and flexible wooden boxes that can be connected or stacked on one another to create any number of furnishing goods called Vertibral, en light of the vertebrae. You know, that long series of bones on your back that helps you with pretty much anything you’ve ever done in your entire life, including living.
Individual box pieces are fashioned with stainless steel hinges which aid in the wood’s ability to expand or “sprawl out”. Then the pieces are able to flex to expand their dimension and design. Intertwine ‘em, stack ‘em, throw ‘em together in whatever way you see fit. Just don’t let any fatties sit on the new chair you’ve made.
No one wants to be the odd one out of an intense game of ping-pong. Enter the Modular Table Tennis System, the table tennis designed specifically for groups of players larger than a couple. Innovator Guenter Arndt claims that his modular table design can house 12 ping-pong players cramped around this table.
The idea is to have four teams of three battling it out with these tables linked together. Two games were proposed: Table Tennis Triples which is a game with teams of three people playing simultaneously, on a circular table and the Modular Table Tennis System (MTTS) allows 1-12 or more players to play table tennis with altered game configurations in respect to the amount of players. That’s one hell of table tennis match.
Now this is just a longshot but I think that designer Dale Mathis might be into cars. I mean I’m no expert but I would imagine that a coffee table full of car parts and metal would appeal to the automobile enthusiast. The gears move in continuity together as you sit on your couch, eyes gazing down upon pound after pound of metal.
At $21,000, it’s a cool table and all but expensive as shit. I could see this table at a Ferrari dealership or an upper-scale custom motorcycle shop. Ryan’s living room? Not so much.
Like Dust Furniture, who says shelves need to be straight? Designer Rafael Morgan was tired of the same old end table at the edge of his bed. So he decided to make an end table for ever changing moods and needs. With only three colors available (white, black and red), there is little mood change among variants.
However, if you’ve ever had an intense desire to store your cat on an end table, Morgan’s design is ideal for that. Just look at the picture. This crime against geometry houses all the junk in your pockets before you crash for the night, so why not have it slide right off the end table? That’s just what Morgan had in mind: angled surfaces that make losing belongings easier than ever.
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Recycled magazines are all it takes to make a fine dinner table. Much like the recycled plastic bottles making up this lounge chair, this table was designed with the environment in mind.
Why trash those old magazines when they can be turned into a nice dining table? Designers: Artists For Humanity have crafted three variations of the recycled magazine table ranging from $300-$650 depending on the model of choice. Proof that you don’t need fine mahogany wood to make a stylish table people will notice.
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