Artistry: Chair Made From Southern Comfort Bottles Could Get You Drunk

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Tuesday, April 5, 2011, by Sarah Firshein Photos via BRC Designs

Core 77 is taking a look at the ingenius work of Benjamin Rollins Caldwell, a South Carolina-based furniture designer who's about to unveil his BNR01110100 011000010110 001001101100 01100101-01 table (nicknamed the "Binary Table 01") at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in NYC in May. It's made entirely of old computer parts—including things that still click, spin, and slide—topped with a piece of glass. We got to looking through the BRC website and stumbled upon another of Caldwell's masterful creations, this time an acyrlic chair filled with 282 mini-bottles of Southern Comfort. (We hear echoes of frat parties off somewhere in the distance...) Anyway, no word whether or not Caldwell raided a minibar for the project, but it's called the Impractically Comfortable Side Chair and it was produced in a limited edition of five. Sad, but the booze has to run out sometime! We've pulled photos of it, as well as that computer table and a bed inspired by organ pipes, for the photogallery above. Drink up!

· "Binary Table 01" by BRC Designs [Core77 via Boing Boing]
· BRC Designs [official site]
· Impractically Comfortable Side Chair [BRC Designs]
· Binary Low Table [BRC Designs]
· Organ Bed [BRC Designs]

View the original article here

House of the Day: Music City Mansion Fit For Southern Society Queen

× Like us and you'll find top breaking news in your Facebook newsfeed. Sign up for our daily email newsletter and get top stories and breaking news delivered to your inbox. Monday, January 17, 2011, by Rob

Have a nomination for a jaw-dropping listing that would make a mighty fine House of the Day? Get thee to the tipline and send us your suggestions. We'd love to see what you've got.

Location: Nashville, Tenn.
Price: $22,500,000
The Skinny: As the home of a prominent Nashville philanthropist, this 21,000-square-foot estate has hosted a litany of charity concerts since it was constructed in 1999. From the listing photos, it's clear there's plenty of space for a grand shindig, but, all formal affairs aside, is this really a worth the sky-high ask? We're loving the wide-plank flooring, but the cabinetry has that over-glossed '90s look down pat. Plus, despite the design professional named in the listing, the interiors are looking a little too down-home for this high-flier. That said, six acres in Nashville's premier—and suitably named—neighborhood of Belle Haven is nothing to sneeze at, and neither are the three-story staircase and stone-clad entrance hall. Whatdayasay, a low offer and wee revamp for one of Nashville's most socially prominent houses?
· 1358 Page Road [Fridrich and Clark]

View the original article here