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Cool Stool We Covet

I love this acrylic stool from Umbra with a built in magazine rack.  It is so sleek and modern and would not that it would fit right into my house... but maybe yours, too? 

It can be used as a side table as well as a stool, and there are actually coffee table and bar stool versions of the same style/line.  I'm seriously considering re-doing one of the rooms in my house to be ultra modern just so I can buy all of this cool Umbra stuff.  My only concern about sitting on this stool is that my ass might get warm after sitting on acrylic too long and leave a condensation ass print.  It could happen!

Magino Stool, $263.00 @ umbra.com

We Covet Multifunctional Kid’s Furniture

This ain’t cheap, but it sure is cool, and it would fit into a kid and adult friendly space. 

This ottoman's great colors and versatility can add a little sunshine to any room. It is smartly designed to be used as a traditional ottoman; put your feet up or take a seat, the soft strong lid is made for it. This lid can also be flipped to reveal the finished wood underside for use as a side table or a toddler play table.

You could keep all sorts of stuff in there if you are using it as kids storage, let’s just say puzzle pieces that no longer have a box, or those tiny freakin’ polly pocket pieces.  They even offer dividers to better organize your ottoman.  Perhaps one side for Cody and one side for Apple? 

These are made in the USA and are safe to gnaw on, if you are so inclined.   Currently free shipping in the US!  Wheee!

Pkolino Play Ottoman, $209.99 @ Oompa.com

Coffee Table We Covet

This awesome table would be a total luxury piece if I was a gazzionlaire.  Light passes through multicolored glass and shines onto the ground below. Small stones, beach glass, and handmade marbles surround and a luminous grid of glass set in steel-reinforced concrete. Stain- and weather resistant for use indoors or out. Drooooooool....

Jessie Coffee Table, $2,200.oo @ guild.com

We Covet Fatboys

The other day I said that I wanted a room full of Tetris chairs.

I've changed my mind.

I want one room full of Tetris charis, and another full of Fatboys (*snicker*). (Am resisting dirty jokes, and also Fatboy Slim jokes, which aren't as interesting as the former, but still.) Seriously - what would be more awesome than a room with, say, four full-size Fatboy beanbag  pillow/chair thingies for  jumping on/rolling over/lounging in/sequestering children in?  Okay, maybe a room full of Fatboys with a (locked) bar fridge and a giant flatscreen programmed to play Dora on a continuous loop during the day (omg you could totally fire the nanny and the children wouldn't even notice) and back-to-back episodes of Lost at night.

I think that I  just  drooled a little, thinking about that.

Fatboys, up to $299 @ DesignPublic

We Covet Cool Geek Furniture

Okay, so, these are the geekiest things ever - EVER - but that doesn't make them any less desirable. TETRIS CHAIRS OMG. Can you imagine, like, having a whole room full of Tetris chairs, so that you could just go in there in the middle of the night when you can't sleep - or when you're really, really drunk - and move them around and try to make them fit together and then collapse on the floor in the middle of them all with your laptop or your iPhone and kick up an actual game of Tetris and say to yourself I am so META.

Or you could just get one, and sit in it while you rock the Tetris, and tell yourself the same thing. But the first scenario is way more fun.

Tetris Chairs, @ $220 each, @ Rakuten (sourced via Truemors)

Urban Hipster Parent Stuff We Covet Shamelessly (Yes. MORE EAMES.)

So, I know that you don't know me, and that you probably don't go around buying gifts for total strangers, but here's the thing: I am eight and half months pregnant with my second kid and am not expecting a shower of any kind and wouldn't want anyone to go to that trouble anyway and even if they did it's really boy onesies and blue blankies and the whatnot that I need, but. I WANT THIS CHAIR. REAL BAD. Because, hello? It is the awesome.

So, um, you know, if you're feeling in the mood to lavish generous baby gifts on people you don't know - or, maybe, you know Tom Cruise and can convince him that miniature Eames chairs are a waaay better baby gift than fish tanks, and also, that he should direct some his largess my way - that'd be, like, cool. Yanno? Just sayin'.

Eames Miniature Elephant Chair $185.00, @ The MoMA Store