Awesome Furniture

AZNOM’s Black Widow Table is poetry in motion: inspired by race cars, with sharp, angled lines, it features a central carbon beam and legs milled from a single piece of aluminum.

Messy, functional and totally awesome, the Shoelace Rug ain’t your momma’s decor as it shifts and evolves beneath your feet; available now in black/white or custom order your own.

Wayne Eyre’s Submarine room is a crush depth-worthy man cave: it sports a working periscope, plutonium torpedoes, an island bar, and of course, a big screen TV with surround sound.

Our friends at 0-60mag.com show you how to build your own Need For Speed: Shift-themed racing console for only $500 (not including electronics); get the 60-page PDF here.

Available in Diesel retail stores, this Turntable Bedding lets DJs mix it up in the bedroom with record player shams and a wicked blanket plastered with knobs, sliders and cables.

Designed for classrooms to maintain direct sight lines to the teacher, the MacTable is a semi-recessed desk which will hold 20″-24″ iMacs with curves that mimic Apple’s own aesthetics.

Keep your secret laboratory a secret with Hidden Passageways; they’ll turn book shelves, cabinets and stairways into precision-engineered, load-rated doors. Thanks, David!

Similar to their 3fold Desk, Formtank’s 4foldlow is a smaller, more affordable version that’s made from a single square of sheet steel; choose from powder coated or mirror-polish finishes.

We’re used to furniture in the pool after a windy day, but this Pool Party Seating is best kept wet: it’ll stay in the shallow end once filled with water, making pool pizza parties possible.

Forget frilly faucets: Balance’s Steel-55 Faucets are monolithic hand-made stainless-steel towers that gush water via an industrial triple-slot lever with minimalist hot and cold markers.

If you’re allergic to numbers, QLOCKTWO is an all-alphabet time piece that’s also a minimalist work of art; available in six colors and six languages for $1,600, there’s also a $0.99 app.

Swiss furniture company Laisr’s line of race car chairs are stationary yet speedy: these carbon fiber seats are inspired by classic race cars including the legendary Porsche 917.

Reminisce with old fighter jock buddies in style at the Phantom Bar; it features four F-4 Mk 7 ejection seats around a table made from a C-119 transport’s original cowl.

Plastic utility tables are great, but the Strut Work Table literally lets you strut: 70″ of glass floats on angled shesham legs with stainless steel accents for a stylish, minimalist look.

Ideal for entertaining in tight spaces, Crate&Barrel’s Kenton Bar Cabinet unfolds to reveal shelving for 12 wine bottles and three stemware racks; the bar top can also double in length.

The Man Wall has it all: 4 flat panel TVs, a 1000W sound system, iPod docking station, beer keg, 1000W microwave, wine rack, 2 cigar humidors, and giant 7′ sports ticker. Thanks, Charley!

Behold, the armored throne: Aodh O Donnel’s Armadillo Chair resembles the leathery hide of its mammalian cousins, albeit with hand-bolted laminate chips over a fiberglass frame.

You probably won’t want to use any rare collectible LPs, but this Album Sound Table is a pretty sweet way to show off your discarded album cover collection while being functional, too.

Nick and Beau Trincia have managed to combine a desk, a chair and a laptop case into one unit: the Openaire separates into a laptop desk and a plush chair when unfolded.

Too bad it’s Japan-only, because we’d love to get our hands on this Lap Desk; it includes a built-in USB-powered laptop cooler, mousepad, cupholder and folds flat for storage.

Converting a coffee table into an homage to Pac-Man was a no brainer for Syd Bolton–the dude has over 5,000 games in his collection and curates the Personal Computer Musem.

We prefer our home theater setups to be more subtle, but we can’t fault Akai’s AISS010 Theatre System for lack of features: it includes an iPod dock, 1080p DVD player and built-in speakers.

More affordable than Embody, Herman Miller’s Setu is a multipurpose chair; its flexible kinematic spine and elastomeric fabric mesh are designed to eliminate the need to adjust your seat.