With its 2” thick wood butcher block top and cast iron legs, this is one solid table. A bold statement for any eat-in kitchen. Also, it can be used for both prep and serving… freeing up some space by consolidating the prep table and the dining table. Or, prep and serving can happen simultaneously as you cook for your friends, pretending that you’re an Iron Chef, flipping finely chopped or julienned vegetables into the mouths of your impressed audience.
Fort Greene, Brooklyn, $1300
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/fuo/3222945268.html
Railroad Car Coffee Table
It doesn't get much more industrial than this repurposed railroad cart from the early 1900’s. Back in the day, railroad cars were used by railroad personnel for railroad inspection and maintenance. Now they can be used as a coffee table to display your tabloid magazine collection and as a sturdy place to put your Mai Tai. Man, modern life is good.
Bushwick, $200
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/for/3239871196.html
1940s Industrial Filing Card Cabinet
When taken completely out of their original context, vintage filing cabinets like this can look really great in an otherwise polished space. Now you have a really awesome looking set of 54 junk drawers. Or, if you’re Joan Rivers, more card cabinets to hold your alphabetized jokes.
*Note the interesting history on this piece of furniture: “…it
was acquired from the NY estate of a noble peace prize winner for physics.”
East Village, $800
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/fuo/3240246905.htmlVintage Industrial Containers/ Wool Storage Unit
You’re probably not storing shorn wool in your Park Slope one bedroom apartment. (Unless you have some interesting page on Etsy where you’re selling some homemade wooly goods.) But you probably are storing lots of laundry in generic plastic baskets. Why not collect your laundry in style with these vintage containers?
Clinton Hill, $150
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/hsh/3234684402.html1916 Moynat Antique Travel Steamer Trunk
Large vintage luggage pieces such as this make for great storage units and double as coffee tables (if they’re large enough.) And they give off a worldly image to boot – like you’re the type of person who can get up at any moment from watching reruns of 'Modern Family' and flee to Istanbul for the long weekend.
A note from the listing: “Today, Louis Vuitton is a household word. However, in France, there were other important malletiers (trunk-makers). The House of Moynat was founded by the malletier Jules Coulembier in 1849. Jules Coulembier patented his first inventions for packaging materials in 1854. In the 1870's, Moynat continued to pioneer innovations in the world of trunks and developed a wide range of cabin trunks, armoire trunks, linen trunks as well as a full range of automobile trunks. From 1900 onwards, Moynat became an undisputed specialist of automobile luggage for which it developed a number of registered designs. The House of Moynat was shut down in 1967."
Now you also have an annoying and snobby story to tell everyone who comes over.
Midwood, Brooklyn, $1600
Poul Kjærholm is a designer notable for his use of industrial materials in furniture. In this very sexy example, the continuous steel frame is bent in a single piece without joints or connections. With the natural flag halyard and steel combination... did I mention how sexy this chair is?
Brooklyn, $2500
You don’t have to be an architectural draftsman to enjoy this very cool drafting lamp. A relic from a time when architects still hand drafted, this piece will add antique interest to your work desk. Now you can place calculated sketches under this lamp, so when your friends come over and ask you what you’re drawing you can blithely look over at the charcoal beginnings of something and say, “You know, new works.”
Park Slope, $75
http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/fuo/3241219840.html
Vintage Industrial Stools
There is something endearing and Pinocchio-like about this stools… like they’re looking up at you with sad eyes and asking you to make them into “real stools.” At the same time, there is something powerfully industrial about them, and they have this Edward Scissorhands fierceness, mixed with the tenderness of a seat cushion, which just somehow works. And, if you don’t like them, remember the scientist who made them, with all of his care and hope, from a misunderstood foundry on a stormy mountain above a town furnished by Ikea. Remember that sometimes the most reliable things come in the most unlikely packages.
Vintage Industrial Stools
There is something endearing and Pinocchio-like about this stools… like they’re looking up at you with sad eyes and asking you to make them into “real stools.” At the same time, there is something powerfully industrial about them, and they have this Edward Scissorhands fierceness, mixed with the tenderness of a seat cushion, which just somehow works. And, if you don’t like them, remember the scientist who made them, with all of his care and hope, from a misunderstood foundry on a stormy mountain above a town furnished by Ikea. Remember that sometimes the most reliable things come in the most unlikely packages.
Somewhere in New Jersey, $200
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