Looking for anything unique, crazy design, stupidly impractical, whatever - snap some pics and post it!

The base is a rear slick from a CART racer, and on top of it is a round piece of glass. Even cooler, the tire is signed by Michael Schumacher, and you can see the signature plain as day through the glass. Very cool.

although i was thinking something along Carl's line, except a little different.

a 911 flat 6 engine as the base of a coffee table. oooh mama! that's one expensive piece of furniture!

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1969 "Bruno" Bed
#8 of 10 Designed by Bruno for Wassart

Tube-frame bed designed to hold a Duxiana 1001 Queen mattress and boxspring. The bed is four pieces of tubular steel that screw together to form a "floating" bed. When the bed is made, it seems to float on the two pipes beneath, as the bedding makes the mattress absolutely flush with the top of the frame.

Cost: $9400
Pros: Historically-important, interesting, serial number engraved, works with the best mattress in the world.
Cons: Only works with a Duxiana mattress and boxspring, difficult to assemble or take apart without two people, slides on granite floors.

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1994 "Foldme" Folding Chair
Unique Prototype, Designed by Tigerman for I-Ver

This is a chaise lounge that looks like a "Jacobs ladder" toy when folded up. When unfolded, it supports itself six inches off the ground and the cloth mat that it is normally wrapped in (when folded) becomes the padding for the occupant's seating surface.

Cost: $2700
Pros: Stanley Tigerman-designed chair to go with a Stanley Tigerman-designed house.
Cons: Uncomfortable for tall people, takes up a significant amount of space even when folded, in a house with only four small closets where do you put such a chair?

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1968 "Wild Lounge" Chair
Unique fabrication, Designed by Wolf for RISD

This is a chair that a friend had fabricated from a sketch series by Nancy Wolf, at the time a student at the Rhode Island School of Design. This was a chair that appears in a series of pieces representing torturous manmade environments. The lithographs use this chair as a symbol for tranquility and rest though, to my knowledge, no other fabrications of the chair design were ever built. The chair is a simple stool with a back. The ottoman is identical to the chair itself, except without the "back" and at 80% scale.

Cost: $94 to fabricate in 1968
Pros: Cool looking, conversation-starter, early work from a notable artist.
Cons: Almost no padding.

A friend gave it to me because he couldn't fit it in his place anymore. We had one in my fraternity house, so I've been playing for a while. I got my roommate and a few friends hooked on the game now, so we play quite a bit. Great fun....

A Tornado would be BADASS, however. Someday...

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My wife's an interior designer. Let me know if you want a pair.<ul><li><a href="http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/product/0,1469,c225-pss4-p47,00.html">Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/product/0,1469,c221-pss3-p8,00.html">Aeron Chairs</a></li></ul>

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Have you found a better place to buy them, pricewise?

...the Aeron's are $800-900 chairs, and our cost is just barely under that -- those are a great deal. If you want one, get one! I might too (and so might my wife).

wouldn't that have to an F1 tire? Schumacher doesn't drive CART...

coat hanger? =p

It is a semi-authenic early 1900's grammophone, restored to working condition, and with a new brass horn. (read: it is not nearly as expensive as a genuine authentic article)

It looks damn cool sitting atop my high-end home stereo system.

-- Peter