Garbage table made from baby-carriage, glass and suction cups
Hans sent us Tina Pereira Filipe's "garbage table" made from street-finds -- a baby carriage and two sheets of glass, suction-cupped together. The hand-brake is great, but it's the suction cups that really make this for me -- we've got four gigantic industrial dolly-wheels kicking around that we've been thinking of affixing to a sheet of perspex to make a rolling coffee table, but I hated the idea of breaking up the surface with big, nasty bolt-heads. Suction-cups, visible from above like the hungry maw of the Sarlacc -- just the ticket.
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A friend of mine gets used wooden pallets from companies and sands them down to a better finish, adds some shopping cart wheels, slaps a piece of glass on top and makes a decent movable coffee table
And it is pleasantly devoid of rubber baby-buggy bumpers.
push the coffee table over here
Personally, I'd go for a soap-box racer & use an upturned packing crate for a table...
Glass coffee tables are outrageously dangerous especially if you have children. Unless the glass is tempered like automotive glass, fall through one and you're likely to sustain life threatening injuries. While it's a cool looking table, anybody how has a glass coffee table and children in the same house is criminally stupid.
...which is why perspex is a good idea.
You can also use glue or double sided tape, you know, the thick pads (cut to shape). That gives the necessary leeway even if not everything is perfectly flat/aligned
Is the guy going to charge 5000% of cost and labor like the skateboard table maker?
Some kind of break or a way of blocking the wheels would be good with little ones around.
Now THIS is everything that the skateboard truck coffee table is not.
Clever use of prefabricated components and an object trouve aesthetic.
also very cool.
I am presuming that the glass is tempered.
The Bauhaus concept lives on!
Ah to those so worried about kids safety
not everyone welcomes them in their homes to
run around loose and untethered to their parents
discipline & control.
Ice is dangerous too I guess we ought to
stop cold weather.
Boing Boing needs a spinoff site just for coffee tables. I've got one to contribute.
I have a four-inch long Y-shaped scar on the top of my head inflicted by tempered glass. It is only slightly superior to plain ol' thick glass in real-world use; lexan is mo bettah.
--Charlie
Any good commercial glass dealer should be able to get tempered glass to size, just make sure to specify you want the edges finished - they generally charge a little extra for it. While acrylic is resilient and pretty much unbreakable, it will attract dust like a magnet and scratch pretty easily.
Yay @ DIGITAL ARTZ.
Well said.
Parents need to realise that the rest of the world will not be rounded to save your precious bubby.
Also everyone else in the world are not your kid's nanny.You had the little buggers, you look out for them and let the rest of us enjoy sharp corners glass tables tops pocket knives running with scissors and non ENCAP compliant cars.
"...anybody who has a glass coffee table and children [OR DRUNKS] in the same house is criminally stupid."
#4, GiantNegro:
A guy I was at school with was hospitalised after falling through a glass coffee table. He ended up with hundreds of tiny scars (mostly on his knees) from shards of glass.
#7 Noen:
As Mr. Doctorow pointed out, it does have a brake. It's on the left in the picture- the metal bar clips against the wheel. These don't really work very well; as a result, my mother took a solo trip down a steep hill while in her pram.
We had glass coffee tables when I was a kind. I guess my parents didn't love me.
The baby carriage wheels are awesome! I've seen coffee tables with the big industrial swiveling wheels but this is cuter and it takes you a moment to figure out where you've seen those wheels before. If it's using regular glass this is definitely not for a home with kids or klutzes, but as others have pointed out there are safe(r) alternatives. Love it!
cute idea! Perspex is the way to go, better to put up with a few scratches than the alternative. I've heard/witnessed too many glass table accidents to eve be able to relax with them. Not just kids and drunks: pets, stress cracks, things falling on them and perfectly healthy,sober adults tripping - once.
It's the unsupported, unframed edges that do the most damage.
My coffee table has *reinforced* glass! Mmmmm, looks like prison... ;)
"Ice is dangerous too I guess we ought to stop cold weather."
Well, that's a relevant argument, if I ever heard one.
Actually glass would be fine.
Tempered glass of even a simple manucature is easily strong enough, and if it is well tempered you could jump up and down on this 'til the wheels came off and it would not break.
Gloria
My sarcasm meter is on the blink, so I can't tell if you're being serious or not. But in general I think if we actually could control the weather, at some point someone would make this exact point in all seriousness and could probably whip up enough parental outrage to get it done.
The only thing that makes the argument non-relevant is it's current impossibility.
Error404
You mean like dropping a car on a plane of glass?
http://www.pilkington.com/resources/cardropclipmp1mpg.mpeg
Full episode: http://www.truveo.com/James-Mays-20th-Century-ep06-Big-City-Bright-Lig/id/1189181601
Relevant section is from about 10 minutes onward..
I'm loving this, along with the Spirit Level table. I've got a Glass topped side table right next to me now. It's made with a Snare Drum stand (Bands leave all sorts of stuff behind) and a piece of 5mm glass cut and edged into a 14" Circle by the nice bloke at the Glass/Hardware shop down the road from me. The Snare Stand was Free and the glass cost about £22 - £25. It looks great and either holds my laptop or a Drink, Ashtray and Snack.
For what it's worth my Brother has a Scar in his Eye brow from the Mahogany (Salvaged) Coffee table my Dad made years ago. He bumped into it whilst crawling/learning to walk. My Dad THEN Radiused the Edges. Horse-Stable-Bolted :)