Thursday, October 2, 2008

Revved-Up and Repurposed

Ever since the new sofas showed up, I've been ogling coffee tables.

It's not that the one we have is bad: it's a modern knockoff that does its job well. But once the worn granny green fabric was replaced by comfy chocolate leather, the coffee table's job as clean distractor from the overstuffed drabness was diminished.

Here's a wishlist contender for coffee table supremacy from over at Apartment Therapy:


If that alone isn't cool enough for you, this is what it looked like originally:


Maybe once these economic doldrums settle out a bit we can find something nifty like this to put our legs on while oozing brain cells watching the sort of basic cable drivel that we don't ever really need to be watching.

Fun design is never out of the question, especially in downbeat times.

You can see more of Joel Hester's nifty steel designs HERE.

No comments:

Post a Comment

I can choose to randomly remove comments on here at will, with no explanation.