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Legless Bar Stool

Legless Bar Stool

Josh Carmody’s clever stool does have legs. It’s just that there’s only three of them. The diagonal cross brace and the stool’s proportions make it seem like it has four legs when viewed from certain angles. Contact Josh to order.

Lapdeck

Lapdeck

An affordable and portable laptop desk. Made of recycled material, this corrugated cardboard desk weighs just 12oz. but can withstand 25lb. loads. It’s wide enough to fit 18″ laptops and is good for a year of normal use.

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Plane Pieces

Plane Pieces
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Etsy shop Plane Pieces makes lamps, sculptures, tables and other furniture and accessories out of pistons, propellers and other parts from World War II-era aircraft. Items are limited and can be customized with different colors.

Parker Wool Sheepskin Bean Bags

Parker Wool Sheepskin Bean Bags
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These extravagant bean bags (a phrase we never thought we’d utter) are made from soft, natural sheepskin, adding a casual but luxurious feel to any space, dressing up casual spaces, and making fancy spaces comfy. Choose from 3′ or 6′ sizes.

DecksTop

DecksTop

A large table with a top made of recycled skateboard decks. Dutch company Focused breaks down worn out or defective decks into sticks then glues them together by hand to create one large work surface. Available in two sizes.

Cardboard Furniture & Projects

Cardboard Furniture & Projects
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Like Karton, Cardboard Furniture and Projects makes flat-pack, modular furniture made of cardboard. They’re water-resistant, lightweight and 100% recyclable. The shop can also customize your order with prints and different cardboards.

StandStand

StandStand
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A simple, portable accessory that lets you use your laptop while standing. It consists of three interlocking pieces made of bamboo or birch. It weighs about 2lb. but can withstand over 900lb. loads. Available in 9″, 12″ and 14″ sizes.

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Symbol Audio Stereo Console

Symbol Audio Stereo Console
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A table with a 2.1 stereo system built in. It has two 4″ speakers, an 8″ woofer, an amplifier, 2 RCA inputs, separate controls for volume, woofer level and subsonic filter, hidden storage and power strip, and optional storage bins.

Genois Sail Bean Bags

Genois Sail Bean Bags
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Dvelas’ Génois are bean bags made from used sail cloth. It’s stitched in such a way that the back tenses when you sit on it, creating support. Dvelas offer more colorful ones as well as pool chair versions on its website.

Wall Ride

Wall Ride
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Zanocchi & Starke’s Wall Ride is a wall-mounted shelf with a built-in skateboard rack. It lets you store a skateboard while displaying the graphics underneath the deck. Like all good things, the rack also doubles as a bottle opener.

Boeing Custom Hangar

Boeing Custom Hangar

Boeing’s Custom Hangar limited editions store offers sculptures, furniture and other decorative items made of old airplane parts, including ones from the 747, 727, DC9, P-51 Mustang, F-4 Phantom and B-29 Superfortress.

OneLess Desk

OneLess Desk
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Heckler Design’s computer desk fits in narrow spaces thanks to a lower deck which pulls out to provide a padded work surface. Power cables and adapters tuck neatly underneath the main desk’s top layer. Nesting stand and file also available.

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DIY Glow-in-the-dark Table

DIY Glow-in-the-dark Table

Instructables editor Mike Warren made a rustic glow-in-the-dark table using photoluminescent powder, clear casting epoxy and pecky cypress, which is cypress wood partially damaged by fungi. More at Instructables.

DIY Expanding Table

DIY Expanding Table

Inspired by the beautiful (and expensive) Fletcher Capstan Table, YouTuber Scott Rumschlag designed and built his own expanding table. The layers on Scott’s tables are exposed from the side, so you can see the parts move as the table turns.

Milli Chair

Milli Chair
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Duffy London’s tongue-in-cheek bedroom chair has way more legs than it needs, just like the weird myriapodous arthropods that inspired it. Put two together for a creepy crawly chaise lounge. Handmade in London.

Magnetic Driftwood Boards

Magnetic Driftwood Boards
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Magnetic boards made from planks and poles found along European and West Asian beaches, as indicated by the geographical coordinates branded on each board. Each board even comes with a photo taken when it was found.

Floyd Utility Set

Floyd Utility Set
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Floyd’s flagship detachable table legs are ideal for making small to medium tables. Now the company has the Floyd Utility Set for larger surfaces. The 29.5″ legs have rubber feet and are reinforced with adjustable cross-bracing straps.

Floyd Shelf

Floyd Shelf
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A shelf version of the Floyd Leg. The Floyd Shelf consists of two mountable brackets where you can clamp a board up to 2.25″ thick to create a semi-permanent shelf. The brackets can support up to 50lb. and come in three colors.

Hure Tables

Hure Tables
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Vintage Industrial’s Hure tables were inspired by and named after a 19th century lathe and milling machine maker. Hure added his signature to his products and made beautiful bases for what would otherwise be utilitarian devices.

IKEA Regissör

IKEA Regissör

The IKEA Regissör line consists of flat-pack furniture that can be assembled quickly and without using tools, thanks to pre-installed wooden wedge dowels. They are also lightweight and use less materials. Turn captions on.

Scorpion Chair

Scorpion Chair
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Can’t afford Maximo Riera’s $50,000+ evil animal chairs? Vyacheslav Pakhomov has something for the baddie on a slightly smaller budget. He makes scorpion-shaped chairs by hand out of oak and leather. Available in two color schemes.

Pipe Desk Frames

Pipe Desk Frames
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We’ve seen clamps that turn any board into a table. Simplified Building’s pipe frames are sturdy, long-term alternatives. Pick from standard, adjustable height, rugged or z-frame, with casters, flanges or plastic plugs as footing.

Hamster Wheel Standing Desk

Hamster Wheel Standing Desk

Desks with treadmills are nothing new, but if you also want to become a metaphor for some poor bloke’s career or perhaps the human condition in general, then replicate Robb Godshaw and Will Doenlen’s hamster wheel standing desk.

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