This is Pear Light, a hollow steel tree acting as a lamp base with three hanging urethane pears. Each pear is connected with a magnet and contains 10 ultrabright LED lights and a charging unit, allowing you to pick the pears from the three and they’ll stay lit for over an hour. Design by Nick Foley.
(Via Makezine)
Surface Tension’s hand-made Arcade Coffee Tables comes equipped with solid 2-player retro gaming components and 29 classic arcade games (Bubble Bobble, Operation Wolf, Rainbow Islands, Space Invaders etc) preinstalled. It runs MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) so you’re by no means bound to those 29 titles either, there’s tons of games available.
That being the main feature it also sports wireless networking, iTunes, Firefox and Windows Media Player, so as long as your coffee maker is within reaching distance you won’t need to leave that couch of yours for quite a while.
(Oh, and it’s insanely expensive)
Surface-Tension.net: Contemporary Arcade Coffee Table (£3295, about $6650 USD)
(Via OhGizmo)
Here’s a set of neat Mushroom Lamps available in red, green and blue, all gifted with bright LED light and activated by a gentle push on the top. They run on 4 AA-batteries so no pesky cords needed.
The red and green one ought to make any nightly Mario marathon complete.
Brando: LED Mushroom Lamps ($12.00)
Inhabit Builtby Lamps are available in a variety of refreshing colors and patterns. How about an Even Steven in walnut and orange, Road Dog in green and rosewood, Mack Daddy in blue and wenge or a Chump Change in green and blue?
DesignPublic.com: Inhabit Builtby Lamps ($170 - $232)
This here is the Cima Ladder and if you’ve been on the look-out for a weird, lightweight (less than a kilogram) and very odd ladder made in carbon-fibre composite it might just be a winner.
Let’s hear it from Cima themselves:
“Like climbing a tree, brings us closer to the basic nature of climbing up to reach the top, climbing as a metaphor of growth and self elevation in life.”
Errr. Yeah. Anyway, it’s available in both neon green and neon pink.
(Via Geekologie)
Remember those beanbags everyone had back in the eighties? Well, the Finnish designer Jukka Setälä has re-designed it and calls it Fatboy. Buy one, feel small and comfy.
The Fatboys are available in red, orange, lime green, black, pink, brown, sand, camouflage, blue, dark grey and.. well, just about every color out there.
Madeindesign.co.uk: Fatboy (£135.32, about $270.191 USD)
Ferruccio Laviani is the designer behind the Kartell Toobe Lamps made in acrylic glass. They’re available as both tall floor lamps and shorter table models, colorwise you get to pick between blue, green, red, orange and crystal (transparent).
Lumens: Toobe Floor Lamps ($606.00)
Lumens: Toobe Table Lamps ($275.00)
(Via Technabob)
According to Timothy Schreiber, the designer behind the E_Volve_Table, the design is heavily inspired by natural fluid patterns and naturally grown forms. The design was then optimized digitally using artificial intelligence to enhance the metal structure.
“Special attention was paid to the organic, bone-like connections at the branches, where the complete ensemble splits up into it’s subparts, which make the table demountable for transport convenience.”
Stylish indeed. No word on price or availability yet.
(Via Yanko Design)
This shelf is called The Corner Tree (designed by Abhinav Dapke), and I wouldn’t mind putting one in a corner at the office at all. By the looks of it it’s not in production yet though.
Here’s the simple and smart Here! Coat Rack. The arrows are made in wood, measures about 6" tall available in red, ivory and charcoal and they’ll just cost you ten bucks each.
