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i think i just peed my pants.

You know, I actually think these could be a great DIY project. It'd take a lot of patience, and I'm not sure what all steps would be involved, but I bet it's definitely doable.

DYI ? Explain please - I have my notepad out....

I am torn. I love them but I think only in a highly designed room like this.

DIY if you can weld.

U G L Y
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I am quite surprised (I don't really like the mirrored furniture thing), but I think those tables are awesome.
I'm sure you would need to be a rock star to pay for one though.

You'd have to get beveled mirrors cut in strange angles, but if you've friends who work with glass, you could make one for less than 60 bucks, plywood included. They are kind of ugly, but a "why not" if you can afford them.

Hotness. Here are my DIY ideas:

Cut the shapes out of wood, sand like crazy, then paint, paint, paint. Dunno if this would yield the smooth, glossy finish required, though, as even the glossiest paint can look dull on wood. Maybe lacquer of some kind?

Or...Get the pieces custom-made in Lucite, then paint. This would yield a much lighter table, but the seams might end up being a sticking point - maybe some sort of material could be used to fill them in and make them smooth.

Anyway, these things are awesome because they look like impossibly large pieces of hematite.

Yikes! They are so ugly. But not in a good way.

Somewhere in the past 5 years, there was a magazine feature about Todd Oldham's FiDi apartment and he had faceted logs (cut to look like giant jewels) scattered around his apartment. VERY COOL.

aaron - Yes! I saw those too, and I covet them. Ah, someday...

I agree with Edina. I think the tables work for the space designed. The muted greys and stark white definitely make the mirrored tables pop. As much as I like them, they would look terribly out of place in my apt.

I found the Todd Oldham article - it's from New York Magazine in 2003. Check out his wooden jewels - it's the first picture in his linked gallery.

Wow, I love these. I wonder if you could build a structure, then have it "chromed."

I'm thinking you could build the structure out of wood, fill in the junctions with silicone caulk and then use metallic shrink wrap film and a heat gun to "chrome" the entire thing.

The only way you're going to reproduce these is to either have the piece cast or welded together (with a judicious amount of grinding) and then electroplated with chrome or nickle.

I wouldn't wish upon my most hated enemy the task of trying to reproduce those seamless joints in glass/acrylic/lexan/lucite. Same for the wood unless you use a solid block and carve the shape.

Also, I think they're gross ;)

um...YES! these are AMAZING.
time to dust off my fabrication skillz.

i like those.

I know this is not what we're getting at here, but I recently bought that issue of Elle Decor, and now you've reminded me of how annoyed I was to find that it's got maybe 10% pages of articles and 90% advertisements. I won't be buying that magazine again.

Did anyone else notice how Levy's rockfusion-meet-meteorite end tables are somehow reminiscent of the Superman 2 phantom zone where general Zod and his cohorts were trapped.... just saying...

I love them. They're a perfect counterpoint to more traditional shapes, and kinda trendy with the new design movement for faceted furnishings.

Ziva, are you suggesting that perhaps we should stop by Levy's place with a few pieces of Kryptonite and see what happens? I understand Lex Luthor was working on a Phantom Zone Release Ray at one time...maybe this really is "space age" decor!