SteamLight Clamp with a touch dimmer knob

Insane. An adjustable light fixture, dimmable simply by touching the knob on the cord.

Yes, it's made from a stainless steel steamer, and you can adjust the lampshade as you can imagine. Several different versions of this lamp are available. None suitable for dinner preparation, however, but would be lovely for ambient light by which you might eat your dinner.

Treku Bookcase

We live in a small house, with rabbits. The rabbit portion of that sentence is important: it tells anyone who's ever lived with rabbits why we can't have normal furniture [or if we do buy something nice, why it won't stay unnibbled past the first week].

This bookshelf, at a mere $1,126, is reasonably bunnyproof. The bottom is steel, and the shelves start above our rabbits' average nibble height.

Ironic that it's from a company called "Design Within Reach", because the rabbits wouldn't agree. [Also, this find alerted me to the knowledge that there is a DWR store in Toronto. Sigh.]

Vintage Aluminum Folding Desk

This desk is the thing that sent me over the edge into stuff-blogging. I had to create a blog just to share this amazing object, or else I'd have to sell the rabbits [not an option] and buy the thing.

Available at fusionfurniture, this brilliant, gorgeous piece of functional engineering was built for US Military use. At the seller's main website, it sounds to me like he/she has more than one of these, still in their original boxes. Which is good, because one day, I just might cave.