Awesome Furniture

A curvy wood chair that combines a place to read your books along with shelves to store them in. Kindle, Nook and iPad fans will need to fill those cubbies with some other tchotchkes.

Another Country’s Day Bed One is a multipurpose piece of furniture. Use it as a lounge chair, a single bed or a coffee table. Made in England using European oak and 100% organic mattress.

Restoration Hardware rounds out their aircraft-inspired interior collection with this media cabinet, made from aluminum-wrapped hardwood with steel screw accents. Measures 59″W x 20″D x 24″H.

This Kickstarter-funded software will let you design your own chair, share it online, and have it digitally fabricated using a service like Ponoko. A physics engine even tests chairs for stability and comfort.

Look how far this silly drinking game has come. It’s got a soberly written Wikipedia entry, and now this – a table specially made for Beer Pong, made of poplar wood and with LED lights for the cup racks.

A head-scratching concept designed by John Leung of Clarke Hopkins Clarke Architects, the bookshelf has a couple of slanted wires in the middle that converge into one when viewed from up front.

This coffee table is the perfect companion to the Aviator Chair and the Hollywood Lamp. Made with hardwood wrapped in polished aluminum, each table has unique dings, dents, nicks and scratches.

There are decorating possibilities galore in this blackboard storage cabinet by Peter Jakubik. The only limits are your imagination, or running out of chalk. Kids: absolutely no fingernail scraping.

Made from an 18 gauge steel coffin, Autum’s Heretic features 4 cast iron legs that support 800+ pounds, a handbuilt and sewn Italian leather seating area and a laser engraved ID plaque.

Mauricio Arruda cheated a bit to make the Mesa Baralho. The playing cards are actually 4mm-thick steel plates 13 times larger than an actual card, enabling the two stacks to support up to 550 lbs.

LA Design Studio’s collection is comprised of a sofa, an armchair, a coffee table, desk and a lamp with aluminum parts fashioned to look like they were components of the classic Shelby 427.

Janjaap Ruijssenaars has created the world’s most expensive platform bed, with a magnetic support system; tethered to the ground, it won’t float away during pillow fights. Video info here. (Thanks Ron!)

Drawing design inspiration from WWII fighter planes, this unique desk is built from patches of aluminum layered over hardwood, attached with exposed steel screws to simulate rivets.

A simple shelf with a hidden compartment to store your gadgets’ chargers and cables. The inside is lined with felt, and has a hole in the bottom so you can easily lead cords to a socket.

Adrian Johnson saw a wrecked BMW coupe and was surprised to see that the back seats were in good condition. Now he reuses them by installing the seats in used refrigerator bodies.

Combining a work desk for your laptop with an audiophile-grade, room-filling 7-speaker, 120-watt sound system, the La Boite Concept LD 120 is a real thing, despite the “concept” in its name.

We’re rubbing our eyes over here after watching this brief video about a dude and his chair, which has been made portable in the coolest way. Now though, we want to see him sit on it.

Calling this desk unique would simply not suffice. Its balustrade is made of hand-turned solid elm, while the desk surface are elm timbers reclaimed from 19th-century courtyard floors and doors.

Based on the specs of a 1930s postal sorting desk from France, this all-in-one office has a built-in leather seat that pivots underneath, and 25 assorted cubbies for holding your assorted stuff.

With all the stuff you need to play a game of Rock Band, your living room probably looks more like a record studio than it should. Grab this ottoman, and get all your instruments under control.

Tokyo’s Daisuke Motogi created this comfy chair that can hold all your books, remotes, gadgets and other small objects in the cracks between its soft blocks. Just don’t lose your pocket change in it.

Malagana Design’s Equilibrium Bookcase consists of 5 separate cantilevered modules that can be configured at single angled points. It holds more than 120 lbs and disassembles without tools.

Designer Riccardo Bovo uses a computer algorithm to generate unique stools from 100 random laser-cut wood triangles, tied together with zip-ties to create a lightweight, rigid, portable seat.