A simple and clever idea to steal: The UK's Cockney Design has created a line of tables from repurposed, circa-1960s and -'70s London street signs. The tables sell for 159 pounds sterling, or about $318.
I think it'd be relatively easy to do something similar on your own. Those legs, for instance, look suspiciously like IKEA's steel Vika Fintorp table legs ($7.50 to $10 each) to me.
You could buy a set of those -- in either the shorter coffee table height or the longer dining/console/work table height -- and then hunt for a cool vintage street or business sign at your local salvage yard. Spray-paint the legs to match your sign and have a welding shop fuse it all together, and you'll own a functional and totally unique conversation piece.
(Via Retro to Go.)
Friday, January 25, 2008
Cool Stuff: Street Sign Tables
Posted by Leah at 12:30 AM
Labels: Cockney Design, coffee tables, Cool Stuff, IKEA, street signs, tables, UK
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3 comments:
really clever idea. i'm loving the mix of the clean type with the more ornate legs.
great idea!
What a great idea!
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