<![CDATA[Gizmodo: furniture]]> http://tags.gizmodo.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png <![CDATA[Gizmodo: furniture]]> http://gizmodo.com/tag/furniture http://gizmodo.com/tag/furniture <![CDATA[The Ice Cream Sandwich Bench]]> Jellio's bench looks like an ice cream sandwich, but is just a couch covered in brown canvas and white velvet. At 48 inches long, it's $950. [Jellio via Core77]

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<![CDATA[Ballerina Sweetspot: A Chair Designed Specifically For Audiophiles]]> There is just something about chairs. Just look around the office—they are not just places to sit anymore. Chairs have become super-engineered status symbols. Now audiophiles can have their own high-tech throne.

The Ballerina Sweetspot is designed to be the ultimate music lover's chair. It features a thin headrest to accommodate headphones and prevent the reflection of sound, memory foam to cushion the body, hollow armrests to neatly hold controls and an aluminum frame that supposedly reduces sonic vibration.

I highly doubt that a chair like this will enhance the listening experience enough to justify the $8000 price tag, but, again, people have a thing about chairs. And audiophiles, like CEOs, are probably willing to pay for the best of the best. [Klutz Design via AV Guide via Audio Junkies via Unplggd]

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<![CDATA[USB Sofa Allows People to Share Files While Resting Their Pretty Butts]]> I like these USB sofas with 14GB of storage. They are designed to be used in public spaces, to let people share videos, photos, music, and any other file. You know, like an Internet you can sit your butt on.

Sure, you can use a network to do the same, but can you rest your feet over Wi-Fi? CAN YOU? That's what I thought. [Cabracega via LikeCool]

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<![CDATA[Stump Light: Light From a Stump]]> Egg Collective's Stump Light is exactly what it sounds like. It'd be a thematically appropriate bedside table-light combination if you've got a cabin in the woods, or a seriously dilapidated urban apartment. [Unpluggd]

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<![CDATA[The Pebro Bench Would Have Been Better as a Seesaw]]> Sure, the Pebro Bench raises up to become a "sculpture" when no one is sitting on it, but I think the designers could have earned more fun points if they had gone full teeter-totter.

[DesignYearbook via TDB]

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<![CDATA[The Post Where I Turn an Old Transforming Sofabed Into a Crime Scene]]> Detective's Notebook, November 15: It was raining. The mother? Crying. Timmy, the son, and friend Jimmy turned in at 11. Timmy said he went to bed on a bunk, woke up on a couch. I think I know what happened.

Little squirt's a couch cushion now, that's what happened. Somewhere in there, beneath polyester layers, foam and particleboard, lay a flattened Jimmy.

I hope it was quick. I hope it really was an accident. We may never know. The truth may have very well ended up lost in the cracks between those cushions right alongside doomed little Jimmy. Was it a jealous friend? Negligent furniture assembly on the part of the distant father? Shoddy craftsmanship and a class action job waiting to happen? Whole thing had my head spinning like a Snudda Lazy Susan from IKEA, just $7.99 before shipping.

Whatever it is, I'll let the station figure it out. I have to get to IKEA. Something about death by meatball.

Editor's Note: Yes, by Internet standards this is an incredibly old sofabed. Relax. [Padstyle via Geekologie]

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<![CDATA[I Don't Want to Come In, I Just Want to Ring This Doorbell]]> *Ring* *Ring* *Ring* *Ring* "What?!" "Oh sorry, I can't stop pushing your Spore doorbell." *Ring* "I'm calling the cops." *Ring*

[Spore Doorbells via Apartment Therapy]

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<![CDATA[Scoop High Chair for Future Space Cadets and Dorky Parents]]> If I ever have kids, I won't get them the $470 Scoop High Chair. I don't care it has a foot pedal-driven pneumatic lift or that is easy to clean: It's just a ridiculous piece of high tech furniture.

Now, if I can get one for myself, then I will get one for each of us. Warp nine, Sonny Boy. [Brother MaxDexigner via Core77]

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<![CDATA[Chair Made From 374 Dowels Will Leave Fascinating Patterns On Your Butt]]> Kibardin Design's "Deep Forest" armchair is made from 374 shaped and creatively-joined dowels. It's as if you plopped into a giant container of different-sized dowels that retained your shape after you left. Pretty, but pricey, at over $6,500USD. [Core77]

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<![CDATA[Sleep Doesn't Seem Like a Priority With the Expose LED Bed]]> My guess is that sleep isn't the priority when you own the Expose LED line of bedroom furniture. I'm surprised there's no waterbed option.

I suppose this is the right bed for you if you prefer to pleasure partners like you're a character in a supernatural slasher film or in an '80s metal music video—but I digress. The bed, nightstand and wall lamp combo are handcrafted from rotten teak planks, which provides ideal cavities to embed LEDs (a clear epoxy material generates the light color effect). Guys with little taste and lots of money can score a set for $7,500. [Treecycled Furniture via Born Rich]

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<![CDATA[Bacon Lamp]]> I doubt that words can do justice to the unbridled fulfillment a man receives when standing next to a bacon lamp birthed from his own brilliance.

Flickr user kmkelley617's bacon lamp is real and it's (mostly) edible. The shade is made out of 99% handwoven bacon which was then baked as a mold in the oven, probably so kmkelley617 wouldn't find himself violently ill should he get mouthy in the middle of a spontaneous-yet-inevitable man-on-lamp lovemaking session.

The only room we see for improvement is to replace that lightbulb with something of a higher wattage so the lamp becomes a dual bacon idol/bacon cooker, rather than solely the former. [flickr via Oddity Central via The Presurfer via technabob]

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<![CDATA[Vertical Bed Includes Sunglasses To Complete The Pretense That You're Awake]]> It vaguely reminds me of someone painting eyeballs onto their eyelids to feign wakefulness, but I kinda almost want a Vertical Bed. It's intended to help you catch a few extra zzZZZ's on your daily commute while looking dorky.

Basically the bed fully supports all of your body weight by attaching to subway ventilation grating. And to prove that it works, some poor guy got assigned to the task of taking 40 minute naps in the middle of New York. Since he didn't get mugged or fall over, this could be considered a successful trial.

The Vertical bed comes complete with noise-cancelling headphones, opaque sunglasses, a free standing umbrella, and fits into a suitcase. No idea when we'll be able to buy one, but I'll be wishing I already had it while waiting in line. [Substitute Materials via Design Launches]

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<![CDATA[Furniture Suitcases Are Living Rooms to Go]]> This is not a sofa. This is luggage. From Erik De Nijs—the designer who once bastardized these pants—I present you with your new airport/train station living room-to-go: The Suited Case. One by one, the suitcases are quite charming.

I even like the retro fabrics. [Nieuwe Heren via Dezeen—Thanks Lola]

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<![CDATA[A Chair Made From 10,000 Drinking Straws]]> Finally, a piece of furniture that goes with your drinking straw lamp. Perhaps next time designer Scott Jarve could create a bendy straw couch so that I could mold the seat to my ass better. [Jarvie via Make]

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<![CDATA[The Next Best Thing After Riding a Real Vespa]]> I've been considering buying one of those aerovertebraedynamic Herman-Miller chairs. But then I saw this: The Vespa Chair. Awesome retro design recycled with leather to fit my sweet bubblebuttocks or scientifically-researched ergonomics that can avoid fatal back problems and RSIs?

I always wanted to have a Vespa. *Buys* [Born Rich]

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<![CDATA[The Mobile Workstation Needs Pedals and a Steering Wheel]]> I love this mobile workstation, but I think the manufacturer could go farther by including pedals and a steering wheel. I mean, they even have a two-seater version of this. Tandem computer-cycling baby!

Check out the two-seater version in the upper right hand corner of the image above. That's gonna run you $1000. Single seat versions are priced at $500. [Opulent Items via 7Gadgets via OhGizmo]

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<![CDATA[Nobo Radiator Looks Like a Fire Pit In Superman's Fortress of Solitude]]> It seemed weird at first, but I'm falling in love with this Nobo electric radiator. It's like an indoor campfire coffee table made with fire and ice.

The heat emanating from the "pit" is controlled by an iPod-esque touch wheel and a built-in projector adds to the ambiance by illuminating the glass logs with a video of flickering flames. Plus, the base gives you plenty of space for guests to place their drinks. Nobo is insanely expensive at $2,800, but you would be hard-pressed to find a living room centerpiece that has more going for it. [CL Designs via Born Rich]

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<![CDATA[I Don't Care If It Could Disappear, I Want This Tetris Chair]]> At first I thought that Gabriel Cañas was nuts for designing a chair that's missing a corner, but then I realized the man is just preventing a full line from forming and the chair's bottom disappearing in true Tetris fashion.

The Tetris chair comes in the more traditional multi-colored design as well as a mono-chrome version, but both look absolutely fantastic in a kitschy way. I just worry about the thing going poof when you sit in it and complete the gap. [Corofloat via Gearfuse via Neatorama]

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<![CDATA[I've Always Wanted to Work Inside of a Cocoon]]> Did you ever read The Giver as a child? It was like a more fantastic version of 1984, but for children. I imagine everybody would work at this cocoon-like desk by GamFratesi. It's comforting, but unnervingly utilitarian. [Dezeen via BoingBoing]

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<![CDATA[Soft Tofu Chair Molds to Your Softer Tofu Tush]]> I've never been all that enthusiastic about eating tofu. But sitting on a gigantic piece of the stuff sounds just delicious.

No, Yu-Ying Wu's "breathing chair" is not really a giant chunk of tasteless protein, but it will automatically form to your body as you sit, turning from tofu to armchair with the weight of your body. But beyond intriguing design, the chair is built from a springy plastic compound with enough resistance that it will actually help lift you out of the chair when standing, relieving some pressure from your knees.

Wu's chair is still just in the design stage, which is a shame, because my butt is hungry. [CCTV via Core77 via DVICE]

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