Furniture Archive

  • Pricey massage chair folds into a cube

    Pricey massage chair folds into a cube

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    The Venn diagram that drills down to the target buyer of this $800 chair must be a weird mix of people with lots of money, a tiny apartment, and sore legs. In cube form, the product “serves as an ideal footrest or stores unobtrusively in a closet.”

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  • Pac-Man bookcase sacrifices shelf space to make room for mouth wedge

    Pac-Man bookcase sacrifices shelf space to make room for mouth wedge

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Will nobody address the elephant in the room when it comes to this awesomely wonderful Pac-Man bookcase? The mouth wedge eats up (pun intended!) valuable shelf space. But what’s the designer to do? The bookcase could be a full yellow circle to represent Pac-Man’s mouth in the closed position but people would argue, “Hey, it just looks like a yellow circle. Then again if you made the mouth wedge, you’d give up precious shelf space.”

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  • Office Depot somehow gets exclusive rights to sell $230 NASCAR chair

    Office Depot somehow gets exclusive rights to sell $230 NASCAR chair

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    I don't know how in the world Office Depot managed to secure the rights to this exclusive, limited edition “No. 14 Tony Stewart NASCAR High-Back Leather Bonded Chair” but all the suits at Office Max and Staples must be going ape shit right about now. If you don’t have stock in Office Depot, buy as much as you can afford as soon as possible (disclosure: I don’t own any stock in Office Depot… YET).

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  • bdporter: Sony Music’s roll-front cabinet with integrated Blu-ray player and projector

    bdporter: Sony Music’s roll-front cabinet with integrated Blu-ray player and projector

    Posted on January 5, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony Music Japan has announced a pretty unusual product today, the so-called bdporter [JP]. It's essentially a roll-front cabinet with a set of devices that's geared toward home theater fans who look for a unique piece of furniture. Buyers will get a Sony Blu-ray player, a WXGA projector, surround headphones, active speakers and a 60-inch projector screen.

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  • Heated portable chair costs $120, makes being outside slightly less miserable

    Heated portable chair costs $120, makes being outside slightly less miserable

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    If you've ever spent an extended period of time outside during the late fall or winter watching some sort of parade, sporting event, or interpretive dance, you'll have no doubt A) had plenty of time to re-examine your life and B) wished you’d brought a chair. Now add C) to that list: wished the chair you didn’t bring was heated.

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