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Amazing Desk from the 1700s Has Secret Compartments inside Its Secret Compartments. Half Dose #87: Mercantile Lofts. [Photos and drawing courtesy The Los Angeles Design Group | click images for expanded/larger views] The Mercantile Lofts consists of 35 "re-imagined" live/work loft residences in Downtown Los Angeles.

Half Dose #87: Mercantile Lofts

The building dates to 1906 and is considered to be characteristic of the Chicago Beaux-Arts style, though a quick glance reveals it to more aligned with the Chicago School than the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in the same city. In other words, the building is more modern than classical, and this lobby design by The Los Angeles Design Group is a contemporary insertion fitting its progressive early-20th-century container. Spurred by the physical constraints of the existing building's walls, the architects hypothesized for the 10,000-sf lobby, "is it possible to manufacture more space without changing the size of a room?

" Parallel strips of MDF in varying undulating shapes comprise the two benches. Wiry Nude Women - Mattia Trotta Creates Elegant Works of Art Using Steel Wire. Google Image Result for. Expandable Wood - spotd.it. Flip Furniture: 22-Piece Folding & Expanding Wood Table. Wood, white and round … nothing unusual there for a simple circular surface, right?

Flip Furniture: 22-Piece Folding & Expanding Wood Table

But wait: those strange slots and surface grooves are not just for show – this expandable table has twenty-two moving parts and folds open much like a giant-sized wooden map. Yin Yang outdoor furniture from Dedon. Like this article?

Yin Yang outdoor furniture from Dedon

Share it: Matching sculptural chairs, the Yin Yang Outdoor Furniture by Dedon uses a smooth woven surface to accent its sharp clean lines. A sweeping modern lounge chair, the complex curving form has an intriguing elegance. The twin chairs nest together, to create a single circular design. When combined the two lounge chairs face each other, offering personal space while still encouraging community and communication. How to Build a DIY Shopping Cart Lounge Chair! How to Make DIY Stairs Out of Plywood! For those of you wanting to make your own stairs, perhaps an addition to your home where it needs it, here’s a great tutorial/example on how to make stairs out of plywood.

How to Make DIY Stairs Out of Plywood!

The amazing part? This guy used just one sheet of plywood to make the stairs you see here right now. The hardest part about making your own DIY stairs seems to be planning and making sure you cut out the right pieces. Nevertheless, I think I will bookmark this, surely there will be a time when someone needs it. Expanding table. Bővülő asztal !. part 1. CRAZY ANTIQUE ROBOT TABLE DEALS CARDS. Rocking Chairs by Hal Taylor. 10 Craziest Human-Shaped Pieces of Furniture. Call it cool or tacky: human furniture is a trend that has come to stay.

10 Craziest Human-Shaped Pieces of Furniture

Samal Design , a popular Paris based design studio, has come up with their new line of furniture collection called “Human Furniture” that celebrates men's beauty and sensuality. All the furniture in this collection display men's semi-naked bodies, some of which show the upper body and the lower body. Exotic dresser by Peter Rolfe. High-heels table designed by Mario Philippona. Human Lamp. 12 Coolest Tables. The Sumo Table Yes, your living room is not complete without an end-table supported by a mighty Sumo wrestler.

12 Coolest Tables

This Sumo wrestler is named Basho, that is a Japanese word for tournament, and he is in his crouching pounce position ready to take on all comers. The price is $225. Pac Man Table Remember the old-school Pac-Man game you usually played on your old computer? Design Idea & Image Galleries on Dornob. Bench of Nails: Recycled Metal Art + Furniture Design. A bed of nails conjures mental images of extreme asceticism, potential pain and times past.

Bench of Nails: Recycled Metal Art + Furniture Design

This bench of nails inverts that association with a smooth, curved and rippled surface for comfortable seating and an extremely contemporary look that shifts and changes from each angle of view. The underlying wood is cut, smoothed and scorched to fade it to the background while the nails on top are ground down to reveal their inner silver shine and stand out visually against the dark wooden surface below. Although technically intended as works of art and not necessarily functional furniture, it seems logical that designers could extend this approach to all kinds of ordinary household designs.

With the nails spaced closely enough and sufficiently smoothed there is no reason not to make everyday furniture like this. Free royalty 3D furnitures models. A Room in the Glass Globe by Hideyuki Nakayama. Instable « aissalogerot.com. Ancient Kauri wood. 3rings » A Product Blog for Architecture + Design. 15 Most Creative Beds - Oddee.com (cool beds, kids cool beds) Magnetic Floating Bed Talk about a cool bed.

15 Most Creative Beds - Oddee.com (cool beds, kids cool beds)

Designed by Dutchman Janjaap Ruijssenaars, this magnetic floating bed has enough magnets to keep 900 kilograms (1,984 pounds) floating in the air. To make sure that the bed doesn't float away because of hard wind or weird movements, it's tethered to the walls by four cables. Technically, the magnetic floating bed is for sale, but at a price of 1.2 million euros ($1.53 million), you're not likely to find it in your local mattress store.