Barack Obama testing different chairs in the Oval Office

April 30, 2009 @ 4:38 pm

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Photo by Pete Souza

The date: January 30, 2009.

The task: Chair testing.

Who: Barack Obama, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Man, this is so funny and so awesome.

The Monolith: a beautiful, compact stainless steel table with chairs

December 10, 2008 @ 12:29 pm

Look at how gorgeous this stainless steel table is. It is called The Monolith and it is designed by Gioia Meller Marcovicz, a German fashion designer who now dabbles in furniture design. [via]

The fantastic thing about The Monolith is that it comes complete with a set of 10 chairs, all of which fold up and slide beautifully into the table portion. When completely folded in, The Monolith resembles a stainless steel hourglass. I’d love one of these in my future home, but knowing the way things like this get priced, I can pretty much rule out that it’s too expensive for me to buy. IKEA, get your designers on this!