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While many need light-filled rooms for inspiration, he wanted to avoid large windows opening onto a residential neighborhood and sought a cave-like atmosphere to disappear into his work. Subtle light was brought in by other means when the architect built a dome above his client’s desk (which Price describes as similar to the rotunda of the oracle’s temple at Delphi) and filled it with the books he uses the most. Davis whimsically calls the space his “Navajo kiva of knowledge.”

My wife wanted an antique warehouse cart to use as a coffee table. Antique Warehouse Cart I decided to build a reproduction cart from scratch. I built the wood structure from 1″ x 6″ pine boards. Pocket holes were used to join everything together. I worked the platform with a file and kicked it around on the street to give it a well used look. For a finish, I chose Minwax mission oak combination stain and polyurethane.

Geek Chic makes heirloom quality hardwood gaming tables [and other furniture].

Canadian Salvaged Timber is a reclaimed wood wholesaler and design shop in downtown Toronto. Since 1997, CST has supplied local, high quality salvaged wood in the form of timbers, milled lumber, live-edge slabs and flooring in the city and across North America.

Paulownia is a type of wood that has been used in making traditional Japanese furniture (mainly chests) for more than 200 years. Not only being light, elastic, and limber, Paulownia is also strong to aridity, humidity, fire, and worms, giving it enough reasons to be used for centuries to protect precious kimonos and properties. All of the furniture produced in this project are hand-made by the most skillful craftsmen from Kamo Chest Manufacturer's Cooperative of Niigata prefecture.

Designed with Takamitsu Kitahara
Size: W900 D900 H270mm
Material : Wood (Structure - Plywood / Finish - Coated Tilia Japonica)

What was so special about a chair that failing to buy it (even at an outrageous price) has haunted me ever since?

Well, this was no ordinary chair: it had clearly been made to order, probably during the Arts and Crafts period, for an eccentric Victorian Scottish gentleman who wanted a reading machine. I don't have any photographs of it, alas (this predated cameraphones: in fact, it predated both my first mobile phone and my first digital camera) but it was at heart a wood-framed armchair, with brocade seat and back padding (badly in need of restoration).

But that's not all. It was a recliner, with a deck-chair like prop behind the back (which was hinged), and a leg-rest (also padded) that could be pulled out from a drawer hidden under the seat, then angled to the user's desire. Being rather more inflexible than a modern recliner, the right arm-rest was cunningly hinged to open sideways, like a rear-hinged car door, to allow entry and egress. The left arm-rest supported an elaborate adjustable wood-and-brass book reading stand, clearly modelled on a music stand, with a small circular side-table on an arm (for the wee dram of single malt) and an oil lamp holder. My memory may be playing tricks, but I'm also fairly sure there was a magnifier. Oh, and did I mention the bookshelves built into the armrests and lower back (below the reclining section)?

The Shrine is a hub of drawers and doors accessible only with keys. Private items can safely be locked away in small spaces. For the very most personal items a secret room can be reached behind one of the drawers.

The rooms have been scaled after typical accessories and gadgets. This way jewellery, makeup, records, headphones, an LP player, as well as private papers and your best whisky can inhabit the Shrine. It becomes your most private place in the house.

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Here are some work in progress pics of THE EMPERORS CABINET. It still gets brass trim and guns, shelves in the bar and a mirrored interior...

This wing back, reading armchair is one of a pair. It is covered in grey-green upholstery and has slightly tapered wooden legs, the two front of which finish in casters. The wooden reading surface pivots on a brass arm and is adjustable, able to sit within a variety of notches.

The succinct story of a modest little footstool-- involving datasheets, cnc routing, laser engraving, plywood, glue, chips, all-thread, angle grinders, mountains of sawdust, dowel rods, spray paint, and a picture of a cat.We wanted a new footstool at the lab, and somehow came across the idea of making it in the shape of our hero above, the 555 timer chip.

The Capstan Table, designed by British furniture manufacturer DB Fletcher, is a table like nothing I’ve ever seen. For 10,000+ £, you too can own a table to put the Stargate to shame. Using “the latest mechanical design techniques“, DB Fletcher has created a table that expands with the press of a button, almost like magic! Even more impressive is that the table remains perfectly circular in the process, unlike those crappy Canadian tables that get all square-like.

This desk is a recycling of books. This photograph does not do justice to how lovely it looks. It is very tactile and appealing.

This is a worktable/desk that I recently finished for a client. She is a fashion designer and needed something she could do multiple things on… sketch, cut fabric, trace patterns and so on. So, I designed and built this table for her.

It has a drawing surface on the left that raises up and a light box on the right. There are 3 drawers that open from either side of the table, as well as custom carved trays for her various tools.

Vintage shop fitting. 40 dovetailed drawers with brass letter plates behind original sliding glass doors. Two spacious drawers below.

The heftiest status symbol for Dutch settlers in Colonial America, a massive cupboard called a kas or kast, reigned supreme in fashionable New York and New Jersey parlors throughout the 18th century. The larger the cupboard -- some were eight feet tall -- the more formidable the fortune of the family that owned it, or so it was thought. Filled with linens, porcelains, silver and the householder's gun, the kas (pronounced kaz) was kept locked, with the woman of the house in charge of the key. "Linens were so valuable that they were always locked away," said Peter M. Kenny, one of the three curators in charge of the exhibition "American Kasten: The Dutch-Style Cupboards of New York and New Jersey, 1650-1800," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through April 7. The exhibition of 17 full-sized versions of these cabinets and one miniature one is the first to document the most purely Dutch of all American furniture forms.

Three Wooton desks that are in the national collections at the Smithsonian Institution were the inspiration for this paper, which traces the history of the Wooton Desk Company and its products. Wooton desks were purchased by prominent persons in Europe and South America, as well as in the United States. They became a kind of status symbol, reflecting high Victorian appreciation for flexibility in furniture. Their varied exterior trimmings made them available for persons with different incomes and preferences. THE AUTHOR: Betty Lawson Walters is a museum specialist in the division of cultural history in the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology. This paper represents the first work in the author's continuing study of nineteenth-century cabinetmakers in the Midwest.

Furniture and sculptures made from marine mines.

swedish design students, emma nilsson, johanna westin and lisa frode have sent us images of their latest project, 'på sofflocket'. the design uses traditional and contemporary techniques to reinterpret and adapt the common kitchen sofa.

the new design offers the same functions as the traditional bench but is adapted to suit the needs of the modern family and their way of living. the storage space located under the seat is separated into two parts allowing for easy access and organization. the back of the bench provides further storage for books, newspapers and magazines, reflecting the more open living spaces occurring in today's homes.

the bench is crafted out of locally produced swedish pine, indigenous to the nordic regions, with elm wood detailing.

I spend about 45 to 50 hours a week working on my computer. Up until a week ago, I did that work sitting on my ever-expanding behind.

Last Monday I adjusted my desk to standing height (pictured right). I spent the week working on my feet, and I'm never going back to a sitdown desk again. Here are some questions and answers about the change.

SUM is a wall mounted asymmetrical shelving system made in solid cherry with brass fixings. The shelves use the same four angles in different configurations to create three shapes of units. SUM comes as a set of three, with the individual shelves in three sizes, designed to fit together in an infinite number of ways. Each sized piece is different in shape, with three of the four sides featuring a groove that allows for flexible configuration. SUM can be built up to any size; depending on the wall or location it is placed in. The finish and quality of SUM is to the highest standard and features a refined joinery detail in the corners.

Citti is a storage system based on a simple modular format; "You choose the size, depth, number of modules, color or finish and decide if you need doors or internal compartments," says Johansson. The beauty in the piece lies in the fact that by restraining the modular format, in terms of size of its constitute components, it can still be constructed by Zweed's traditional cabinet makers, but keeps the costs of these bespoke pieces low. Again, as the colors are based on the NCS Colour System, the client has literally limitless options.

All of this explains why I am so happy to have discovered the GeekDesk. Simply put, it is a traditional two-legged desk frame that uses an electric motor to raise or lower the working surface from 26" to 46.5" and anywhere in-between. It can lift up to 175 pounds, and it rises and falls at 1" per second.

The desk itself is made up of two steel legs connected by a cross bar that contains the electric motor and rack-and-pinion lift mechanism. The top of the desk is screwed on to the legs. GeekDesk sells the legs separately for those interested in attaching their own surface.

The most efficient way to build is vertically.
Building vertically saves space as it uses minimal ground square meters. When it comes to interior design, the same rule can be applied. By focusing on height rather than width, efficient storage designs can be created. However, high storage designs can create a new problem because the higher storage parts will be difficult to reach. My Staircase is a shelving unit that combines a bookshelf with a pullout stair system in the bottom three shelves. The shelving unit is 2.6 meters high and the top shelves are accessible by using the bottom shelves as steps for accessing the higher shelves.

No matter how passionate book lover you are, at times you find yourself so lazy to go and get the book from the storage unit. If you ever wished your bookcase was so much near to your seating that the text were just handy then Tatik is here to tell you that your wish has come true. Designed by Tembolat Gugkaev, it’s a chair cum bookcase. Ultimate bet for booklovers, Tatik is a chair that lets you relax and pick up a text whenever you want to without getting up. I pretty much loved the idea of this hybrid of the armchair and bookshelf.

A beautiful contemporary desk was designed by Marc Fish, specialist of contemporary furniture from England. It is called Le Orchidee. The design was influenced by a desk with the same name at Musee d’Orsay, Paris, designed by Louis Majorelle. This design has been made very detail and smooth, applying wood and aluminum materials.
This desk is completed with several drawers, even the surface, where you can lay your notebook or writing a paper, is designed as a drawer, with a covered void to keep some documents. Every drawer and surface are made very smooth, even seamless. Some new techniques that never been used are used, resulting very beautiful design. For the example, the tambour roll top is designed from a veneered canvas, layered upon strip of wood, the result is awesome.

This project is about concealing valuables, secrets, bad habits and personal information in our workplaces. Here, hidden spaces/ messages were created within 8 general objects such as wood boards, lamps and disposable coffee cups.

Slip Shelf: shelving unit and magazine rack.

An AT-AT power cord organiser.

the LackRack is the ultimate, low-cost, high shinyness solution for your modular datacenter-in-the-living-room. Featuring the LACK (side table) from Ikea, the LackRack is an easy-to-implement, exact-fit datacenter building block.

PowerPOST is a table leg for system furniture that installs power outlets into the desk.

Corner built in local materials of the school library. As if in response, such as ceilings and beams continued YAMANAMI different height, four in the mountains that form a single spread, and made a space in which natural入Ritaku children. Each mountain is a four-seater tables, Komoreru in one corner, and a large exhibition area of materials that form a place of different quality.
yamakoya is shelf like mountain for library.It also make 4 different small space where kids enjoy to stay.

Based in Santa Cruz, California, Reversica Design makes unique motion hardware that lets builders, woodworkers, and craftsmen produce tv-hiding media centers, hidden passage bookcase systems, and room-doubling hide-a-beds.

Chuck is an expert in 17th, 18th, and early 19th c. furniture. Recently, he gave a presentation to our woodworking club about secret compartments and locking mechanisms that were sometimes found in period furniture, such as spice cabinets, slant front desks, lap desks, and blanket chests.

For well over a hundred years the world has failed to take proper notice of the word "Table" clearly contained in the name of the famous Periodic Table of the Elements.

One evening while reading Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks, I became momentarily confused. He begins a chapter with a description of a periodic table display he loved to visit in the Kensington Science Museum, and in mis-reading the paragraph, I thought it was a table, not the wall display it actually is. While my confusion only lasted a few seconds, when I found out there wasn't a Periodic Table in the British Museum, it left a hole I felt I had to fill.

The shelves are CNC cut in oak veneered plywood to the customers measurements. They are intended to be used throughout life as storage for personal belongings. On death, the shelves are dismantled and rebuilt as a coffin.

Hilted umbrellas, and chairleg logs for your gas fireplace.

Based in Santa Cruz, California, Reversica Design makes unique motion hardware that lets builders, woodworkers, and craftsmen produce tv-hiding media centers, hidden passage bookcase systems, and room-doubling hide-a-beds.

Londonderry Brasses, Ltd. offers a fine selection of high quality reproduction brass furniture hardware. The brasses, reproduced from period originals through the process of lost wax casting, provides the authentic look required of antiques and fine reproductions.

Unistrut, a system of slotted metal channel, framing and tubing that can be connected and interconnected with various nut and bolt fittings to create storage racks, shelving, work tables, support for overhead lighting and a lot more. The parts are industrial quality (steel and/or pre-galvanized steel), but priced to be used everywhere.…You can buy Unistrut fittings online. Channel, the part which is expensive to ship, can be found next to electrical conduit at Home Depot.

The products presented here were designed and produced using an alternative design and development method that frees a designer to pursue creative expressions, realize them as industrially repeatable products and have the ability to globally distribute design.
In Open Design, the design is a two dimensional "cutout" represented as digital information. It relies on the Internet's communication resources, to publish, distribute, and copy the designs under a CreativeCommons license. Coupled with The flexibility of CNC production methods, all technically conforming designs are continuously available for production, in any number, with no tooling investment, anywhere and by anyone.

Clocks cunningly disguised as hardback books.

This custom-made bookshelf is made out of 12mm oak planks. Ninety six individual pieces have been handmade and marked to fit into the puzzle of the 4.0 x 2.5m wall. The shelving is designed as an expandable system, it is self-supporting and has no visible fittings so it can be dismantled and re-used.

I’d always imagined that the modern practice of labelling parts for assembly using the alphabet — insert tab A into slot B, etc. — must be a post-industrial innovation, one which relied upon modern standards of literacy. Not so.

A polar bear bookshelf, made of white laminated wood.

Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together.

Solid hardwood flooring components — pre-finished, precision fit puzzle pieces.