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COFFIN TABLE: rethink your life with your morning coffee
inhabitat.com — Worrying that you don ’t think about death enough in your day-to-day life? Pratt student Charles Constantine is looking to change this and inject a bit of morbidity into the daily routine, with his new design for a coffee table coffin. On display in the Pratt Institute student design booth at BKLYN Designs.
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- louiebaur, on 05/13/2008, -4/+5Interesting
- jetblackstrat, on 05/13/2008, -0/+10What's interesting to me is that the subby didn't go for the easy pun of "Mourning Coffee" Or talk about how much of a "stiff" they are before a cup of joe.
- texpundit, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3It's definitely not a new concept. I found these guys years ago.
http://www.casketfurniture.com/- maninalift, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Except the link you give is for coffin-shaped furniture (for the goth who has everything) whereas the above is not all that "coffin shaped" but is in tended to be used as a coffin.
To be honest is seems like a crappy idea (the one in the article, not your link) as you would have to live with that ugly, awkward piece of furniture for the rest of your life.
- maninalift, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Except the link you give is for coffin-shaped furniture (for the goth who has everything) whereas the above is not all that "coffin shaped" but is in tended to be used as a coffin.
- maninalift, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1Title missed a pun though, should have been "...with your mourning coffee"
- bat-21, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1You can get sofas made from real (but unused) coffins at http://coffincouches.com/index.php . They're pretty expensive but look better than that pretentious piece of crap.
- ecomod, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1this is a funny idea - I love it
- MikeChino, on 05/13/2008, -2/+1Brilliant - a literal take on "cradle to grave" design that manages to be environmentally sound.
- nrrrd, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2this is depressing
- guitargod, on 05/13/2008, -13/+2buried for re post
I've seen this before- Salinesolucion, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7this design was exhibited by a student for the first time 3 days ago - so there is no way you could have seen it before. Maybe someone else has done something similar in the past - but this is not a repost.
- acosta814, on 05/13/2008, -0/+42Is it just me or this doesn't really look like a coffin? Maybe I'm missing something
- jjpertusch, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5i thought the same thing.
- VarianX, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7I think it's so you can be buried in the fetal position....or an amputee.
- victorycig, on 05/13/2008, -0/+16Looks more like a baritone sax case. Yeah, you band kids know what I'm talking about.
- theliamburns1, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1No it really dont. Id rather have one of these http://www.my-homefurniture.com/coffee-tables.html
- cdahlkvist, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Coffin for someone with a seriously large goiter.
- jeschelon, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Agreed - doesn't look like a coffin. More like modern art
- PopcornDave, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1You're right, I was thinking it looked like a giant pipe case.
- caruso, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1i feel sorry for the guy who invented that tbh
- victorycig, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2I'm always worrying that I don't think about death enough.
- ElAssoWipo, on 05/13/2008, -2/+15"wow I really messed up with this one, it's all crooked and looks like a coffin"
- "dude, just call it art nouveau, give it a dumb meaning and you'll get a prize". - StingingNettle, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Just like in Interview with the Vampire!
- Salinesolucion, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4guitargod- this design was just exhibited this weekend for the first time, so its impossible that you would have seen it before
- SharkyTech, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3I think you're forgetting that everything is old on digg. In fact, I'm pretty sure your comment is a repost, try searching next time.
- guitargod, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1well i haven't seen this specific design I'm just saying I've seen a coffin coffee table on digg not to long ago and if you've seen one coffin coffee table you've seen them all.
- SharkyTech, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3I think you're forgetting that everything is old on digg. In fact, I'm pretty sure your comment is a repost, try searching next time.
- d4ftpunk, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0Looks more like a guitar-case than a coffin..
- JargonScott, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2I was going to make a casket coffee table but my wife wouldn't let me. I found a wicker "showing casket" at an antique store. Back 60+ years ago funerals would be held in the person's own home, at least in rural locations, and they would be in these caskets for the better part of a week. My dad (he's 75) told me about these caskets, as he remembers his mom's funeral when he was 8.
I thought building a hidden steel frame inside it and having a thick plate glass surface would have been interesting. Oh well... :)- tehnico, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Heh, back when the living room was called the parlour. Odd that it was changed to LIVING room. Coincidence, proly not.
- 3nnRG, on 05/13/2008, -0/+15The title should read: "Coffin Table: Rethink your life with your mourning coffee"
=p- solemnraven, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1i was thinking the same thing. i think its cute....
- davidlow, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1You beat me to it. Dugg.
- d4ftpunk, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1If you get buried in that, you've got a weird body shape...
- turturis, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4title correction:
mourning coffee- robthom, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2you beat me to it.
:)
- robthom, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2you beat me to it.
- jjustice, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1I'm sure the whole "think about death" thing is partially just a joke, but it brings a thought to mind: eventually furniture always just becomes furniture, and you don't think about it anymore. Other than maybe, in this case, thinking about how your coffee table is ugly ;-)
- alphamega11246, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,167 ...
- AzraelDenver, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1The basic shape is there, with a little extra room next to the shoulder. I was wondering if that was so I could bring my dog with me.
- plimpton777, on 05/13/2008, -3/+1Pratt is full of freaky goth bitches who never outgrow adolescence. I love it when they wander a few blocks east of campus to Bed-Stuy and get mugged.
- mogebier, on 05/13/2008, -3/+2Way to reinvent the wheel. People have been making coffin tables for decades. Nothing new here except that they got a story about it on Digg.
- gr3yn3t, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2I prefer the seinfeld coffee table book.
- SharkyTech, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1I guess this is one thing that you can take with you.
- bxblox, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3It looks ok, I expected more.
- trdrstv, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Sweet, it even has cut outs for all my Laserdiscs!
- BufordT, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Funny, that was just on last week's episode of The New Yankee Workshop.
- wraithscelus, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1It resembles an arcade machine pushed on its side...
On a side note, it also makes me want to build something with that nice, smooth wood. Look how smooth that looks! - frankingeneral, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2More like "mourning" coffee...
- frankingeneral, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2I wish I could digg myself down...unoriginal bastard that I am...
- awtripp, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1put some cushion in there, and it's just another bed for a drunk friend.... who may wake up buried alive...
- larsonsm, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2The coffin table: perfect for people who like coffee tables but wished they looked *****.
- allanhough, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0i liked that pabst blue ribbon coffin better
- Consh, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0I'm pretty sure that I could make something both sturdier and better looking than that piece of ***** with balsa wood.
- MrViklund, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1YOU RETHINK!
- kmattso, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2It's a coffin for Quasimodo.
- NoSalt, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1How does crap like this make it to the "Technology" category???
- bholub, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1That's nothing. My dad, frugal as he is, built his own coffin (which he actually plans on using) years ago... he uses it as a closet for now.
- lionelmandrake, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0Perhaps one of those 1960's - 1970's console-type stereo systems is in order: "Enjoy your stereo often, then use it as a coffin..."
- alphamega11246, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0I saw this kid present this thing last weekend. You lay in it on your side, quasi-fetal position. Those slats follow the contours of your body. It was interesting enough.
- steaprok, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1very cool, contemplate death every morning with my coffee.. I can dig it !! literally
- thefinger, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Who cares what the ***** thing looks like when you're dead?
- Br0wn, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1This reminds me of this past easter when my grandpa revealed that big steel table we ate at outside all my life was an autopsy table.
- quackmo, on 05/14/2008, -0/+0Hey! A good place to bury your Starbucks stock.
- Emma1989, on 05/23/2008, -0/+0No Life without coffee!
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