Furniture

Department Chicago’s beautiful mid-century-style stereo console. It has a pair of speakers, each with a 100W amp, a 6″ driver and a 1″ tweeter. You can connect to it via Bluetooth or RCA. It also comes with removable record dividers and an adjustable shelf.

Lian Li’s DK-04 electronic standing desk doubles as a gaming PC chassis. It has tons of cooling, room for an mATX or ATX motherboard, GPUs up to 320mm long, and up to eight 3.5″ or 2.5″ drives. Its height can be adjusted from 27″ to 46″. Drops 5/10/16 for $1500.

Pigro Felice’s Modul’Air is a collection of modular and inflatable furniture that you can use both on and off the swimming pool. The modules include a stackable base, backrests, a hammock and even a cooler that comes with magnetic silicone glasses.

Designer Juno Jeon created this intriguing piece of wood furniture, a small table which features a textured surface which moves like the scales on a strange looking animal when its drawer is opened or closed.

UK-based Etsy shop Smithers of Stamford specializes in industrial furniture made of used objects, such as this massive hood from an old Massey Ferguson tractor. It comes with a glass tabletop and measures 22″x 48″x 25″.

Pronounced “U-by-four,” this simple, versatile bracket system allows you to take pieces of 2×4 and attach them as legs to create your own custom furniture. From nightstands to dining tables, their angled design gives every object you make a cool and modern look.

Designer Stelios Mousarris‘ second Inception-inspired table is much bigger than the first one, measuring 98″x 30″x 28″. Its continuous wood and steel sheet undulates to create a large crest and a tapered leg that support the glass surface.

It might look like a stool, but this is actually a book. Designed by Mike Mak, Bookniture’s cardboard honeycomb structure can hold over a ton, and folds up into a book for storage when not in use. Measures 13.5″h x 14″ dia when in use, 13″h x 7″w x 1.5″d when folded.

Bel & Bel makes chairs partly made of the front panel and front cover of ’80s Vespa scooters. The chairs are handmade, reclinable and height-adjustable. They also retain the functionality of the scooters’ turn lights.

Troy Huang’s made-to-order desk features an intricate, 3D-printed scale model of Manhattan below the desk surface, while its clear acrylic legs mimic the fallen Twin Towers. The desk measures 30″x 60″x 32″ and has LEDs in the legs and under the model.

Autonomous proves that you don’t need to spend thousands to own a great motorized standing desk. Its top of the line desk has bells and whistles like a personal assistant, but its basic model has all the essentials, including a lap desk-style ergonomic surface.

Jonathan Morrison put together a modern, minimalist and crazy expensive desk setup that fits the style of fellow tech reviewer MKBHD. Skip to 4:39. The highlight is definitely the angular Furtif desk. Check out the video’s description for links to the showcased products.

Kagen Schaefer makes complex wooden puzzles. One of them is a desk that has over 20 puzzles and hidden compartments, which when solved give you pieces of sheet music. Put that together, play the notes on the built-in pipe organ and you’ll open a final secret drawer.

Expand Furniture’s space saving design combines several full-sized pieces of furniture. One side has a table and a bookshelf. Fold the table up and turn the shelf around to reveal a fold-down mattress. Available in six colors.

Funded on Indiegogo, Greycork makes flat pack minimalist living room furniture that are easy to assemble and take apart. The sofa and chaise don’t have springs, but their included cushions have different layers of foam for support and comfort.

A modular bed frame that’s equally easy to put together and take apart, from the maker of the Floyd table legs and shelves. Its steel supports, tensioning strap and optional lightweight wooden panels fit together without the need for tools.

We can’t fathom the amount of work it took Frank Howarth to shoot this stop-motion video of a lawn chair crafting itself without a single carpenter. If it looks familiar, that’s because Frank’s bookcase and table saw posses the same magical properties. (Thanks Victor!)

Designed by Gonçalo Campos, the Metis is an oak desk that will let you get rid of your desktop clutter discreetly. It has three drawers, two lidded compartments – one of which has holes for cables – and a secret compartment.

A smart, space-efficient take on the standing desk, the modular wooden StandCrafted hangs on your wall, freeing up floor space. It holds any display with a VESA mount, has a keyboard and trackpad/mouse tray, a laptop holder, a place for gadget charging and even a cup holder.

After designing his own expanding table, Scott Rumschlag came up with a mechanical wooden standing desk that’s much faster to operate than motorized desks and withstands over 250lb. loads. It uses two wooden boxes filled with nails and sand as counterweights.

Tired of dealing with dirty upholstery, Sitskie came up with its patented block furniture system. Small strips of wood joined together by elastic create a seating surface that’s comfortable and easy to clean. It’ll leave your bank account spotless too.

A desk and chair combo that lets you sit, stand and lie down. Its monitor arm works with VESA mounts and supports up to 35lb. display setups. It comes with magnets for the keyboard and mousepad so that they’ll stick to the magnetic desk. Skip to 1:57.

Vintage Industrial’s adjustable height desk is impressive, handbuilt from heavy gauge steel with a solid hardwood top. It’s base is held together by over 200 rivets and bolts, and a turn of either iron crank raises its top from 30″ to 42″. In 96″ x 40″ or 120″ x 48″ sizes.

Nendo’s piece for the 2015 London Design Festival, the Nest Shelf cleverly hides an inner copy of itself, effectively doubling its width when fully extended. It’s made of carbon fiber and aramid, then coated in larch veneer.

Julie Legros and Lavallard Boget created this truly special interpretation of a classic Eames mid-century modern chair, replacing fiberglass with concrete, and swapping aluminum for steel rebar legs. The seat side has a smooth finish, while the rear is rough and unfinished.