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“Antique” Sofa has a hide-a-bed style pool table built in
What a great idea. This is a sofa which as a pool table built into it hideabed style. Okay, actually, it’s a snooker table, but still. What an ideal addition to an apartment/mancave. According to Craziest Gadgets the couch is about 6 foot long and apparently, it’s quite popular in the UK where they’re fairly cheap.
Made as a joint venture from Pierce Upholsterers and Accrington and Riley – makers of fine British pool tables, and was produced in the 70’s. It’s made of a neutral brown dralon fabric and when opens it flips into a pool table with adjustable leveling feet to make it level. What a fantastic idea which was decades ahead of it’s time. It probably didn’t do too well because manufacturing it would’ve been costly without a computer/motion controlled assembly line. But with the advent of not only computers for design and manufacture, this piece could easily make a resurgence. And why stop there? Imagine a sofa with built in ping pong table, air hockey table, poker table!
As I said, this bad boy has “man cave” written all over it. Currently for bid at eBay.UK at about $200 US but it’s sure to go well north of that.
Hat Tip – Gizmodo via Craziest Gadgets
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Cool Sunglasses Says: August 3, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Haha thats the coolest thing that I’ve ever seen. You can sleep on it, sit on it and play pool on it. Its like a bachlorpad must!
-Chris
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gadget review Says: July 14, 2009 at 6:19 pm
that is a cool sofa, i would love to own one of those