Furniture made from aviation salvage

Motoart sells furniture made from aviation salvage, like this desk made from a polished 727 cowling -- you can get a matching chair made from B-52 ejection seat! Lots of good stuff, no prices, probably out of my league, but a guy can dream. Link (via Cribcandy)

[#1 posted by Ethan , October 4, 2007 5:17 AM]

If I'm not mistaken, these guys (MotoArt) are the same ones that were featured in DiscoveryChannel
's "Wing Nuts."

[#2 posted by Toastpoints , October 4, 2007 6:49 AM]

You're not mistaken, it's them. I miss that show, crazy as it was.

[#3 posted by Bentcorner , October 4, 2007 7:14 AM]

The chair shown in the photo isn't from a B-52 ejection seat. They have more of a square-shaped back. They don't come to a point like this one. This one looks too flimsy to even be an ejection seat.

[#4 posted by Cory Doctorow , October 4, 2007 9:17 AM]

Bentcorner, yeah -- the B52 chairs are elsewhere on the site.

[#5 posted by Strato , October 4, 2007 9:55 AM]

I watched the series for a while...wish I could justify the expense as they do some cool shit.

as an indicator of what their prices run look at the following

http://store.motoartstore.com/artwork.html

the "AquaBomb" (which I learned watching the show started out as an attempted Lava Lamp) sells for $3950.00

so figure 4x that for a cowling desk...at least.

[#6 posted by Jennifer Emick , October 4, 2007 2:29 PM]

My FIL sells aircraft salvage...used to have literal tons of this stuff lying aroun. The bomb bits always looked like rockets to me, so I had this fantasy about making a marvin-the -martian style playground...