Experience the excitement of space travel without the risks by adding the Nova Black Hole Illuminated Coffee Table to your home décor instead. This futuristic table designed by Jon Gilmore features a center section with concentric rows of white LED lights that resemble a black hole sucking up light rays. The glass table top serves the dual purpose of supporting your drinks or oversized picture books and protecting you from falling in. The body of the table is made from aluminum in a shiny silver finish and is shaped a bit like an alien spaceship. Functional and innovative, the Black Hole table will look as good in your home as it would in the Jetsons’ living room. Currently priced to move at just $1,069.99, the table’s dimensions are 42”W x 42”D x 16”H.
This is a Lamp Illuminated Philippe Starck Bubble Chair By Tobias Wong
Designer and fine contemporary artist, Tobias Wong, passed away on May 30th from an apparent suicide, but for some reason I didn’t hear about his death until today. Tobias Wong was known for outrageous send ups of luxury goods and humorous appropriation of work by other designers or businesses – such as McDonald’s Restaurants – which blurred the line between conceptual art and design. He first gained the attention of the design press in 2001 when he turned a Philippe Starck Bubble Club chair into the lamp pictured above.
I just love rad furniture. I wish I could afford a gigantic house that I could decorate and fill with all of the amazing furniture I see out there, like this illuminated Disco Chair, which is just insane. According to the website of London-based design firm, Kiwi & Pom, the Disco Chair (commissioned by Wallpaper Magazine) “is a bespoke illuminated furniture concept. Continue reading Disco Chair!→
What does it say about my life’s degree of happening-ness that the high point of my day so far has been discovering these color-changing light-up drink coasters that you can buy online? I am not quite sure how to answer that question, but check these things out! You put a drink on it and it lights up, and then changes color! OMG! Party! I need to own them. Each coaster measures 3 ¾ inches square and sells for $23.95 per set of four. Available to own now by visiting Amazon at This Link.
Now, this is what Holiday festivity is all about! Kris Marshall’s Christmas Light Truck has “brightened the holiday season, figuratively and literally, for residents of Central Iowa for the last 25 years.” Click over to Jalopnik for the full story and more cool and Illuminating pictures!
