For something so important, your coffee table goes through a heck of a lot of abuse. Look at yours now. Magazines from six months ago are left forgotten under bills and junk mail. Assorted coins have become permanently glued to…
Continue Reading →If you find yourself anywhere near the San Andreas fault, you probably have the expectation of a little shake and quake every now and then. While the Tectonic Table series by Alain Gilles for Bonaldo may employ a similar principle…
Continue Reading →At last year's FLIP challenge, participants were asked to compose an original piece of piece of furniture employing two types of wood displaying artistic value. Four students of the Raffles Design Institute got down to work and when all was…
Continue Reading →You know we get all goobery and excited over tables that do stuff, so the thought of the RGBy table gets us pretty excited, too. Using photo sensors and multicolored LEDs, the table changes color according to the objects placed…
Continue Reading →Some months ago, somewhere in Las Vegas, a set of very lady-like, yet very intoxicated ladies leaned over a table whose surface responded to their touches. They put they're fingers on it (pink!), they wrote their names in it (green!),…
Continue Reading →I feel a special kinship to the team at Knú, the sustainable modern furniture company who launched this past September, not only because they were amongst the first of my discoveries after I started writing here, but because they are…
Continue Reading →My suburban childhood was marked by the Friday nights my parents would splurge and take us to a certain unnamed pizza chain for pipin' hot pie. Those short trips out of the house also meant I'd again get to kick…
Continue Reading →Furniture design's favorite couple, Form and Function is at it again. The power duo that makes and breaks the barriers of space, has taken on an Umbra face: meet the Magtable coffee table, a sweet little piece that lets you…
Continue Reading →I've wondered for a few years why we don't see more carbon fiber in furniture design -- especially since it's been used to make oddly shaped bicycle frames and body panels for F1 cars for years. It's not much more…
Continue Reading →Before we go any further, you need to watch this YouTube clip -- which I hope to God is tongue-in-cheek -- introducing Timothy Schreiber's E_Volve_Table. You really can't use Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra in the post-2001 universe without either being…
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