Furniture made from rusted Soviet naval mines

Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin creates furniture and other housewares (woodstove, prams, chairs, etc) from rusting naval "Blok" mines recovered from an ex-Soviet fortress on Naissaar Island, an Estonian island off the Finnish coast. This desk gives me the desiderata shivers.

Marinemine - The Mine furniture:

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mccrum

I think that unless it comes with the required radiophone displayed on it, then it’s useless.

I agree with sapere_aude however, it’s not going to go well in my home, but if I also had a concrete and brick structure like the one it’s displayed in? Hells yeah.
dculberson

Well, lord in heaven above, just when I thought I couldn’t be surprised by found material furniture, here we have something that makes me drool and causes heart palpitations. That is one seriously awesome looking desk.

@js7a: the average life expectancy of one in the super villain business is so low that perchlorate contamination would not have an adverse impact on quality of life.

@mccrum: just so happens I have a concrete and brick office, in an old tractor show room. Now I need to invent a back story and a villain angle. Maybe my whole family died in a ship wreck caused by abandoned Soviet mines.
Anonymous

That’s where Salad Fingers surfs for internet rust porn.
AirPillo

I have a sneaking suspicion that the rust would stain your floors.
Anonymous

It’s da bomb.
Hools Verne

That is beautiful but I would not want to have to move it.
llazy8

Why has my Argentine Service Provider disabled this site? I want to see . . . Does anybody have the pictures on a different site to try?
Rainer

Some major plans will be hatched at this desk. A plot to overthrow Gene Simmons then off to get a tetanus shot.
- wrybread
  
  There should be some word for when someone wins the thread on the first post.
Diamond Jim

Didn’t this belong to a Bond villain in one of the lesser Roger Moore movies?
Donald Petersen

Bask in the glow of Atom.
EMJ

an Estonian island off the Finnish coast?
Anonymous

I think site is down as their bandwidth exceeded, but here is site of the artist him self
http://karmin.ee/
Teller

Grab your treatment. Mr. Gilliam will see you now.
Anonymous

What Mati did is more art than design! Love it so much that I just wrote an article about him & his great work in German language: http://blog.woont.com/furniture/marinemine-ofen-mati-karmin/ Thanks for the inspiration
tgvaughan

I hereby declare this the upper bound on desk badassness.
Anonymous

Bummer I cant get to the site , something about it being disabled, I want to see more!
js7a

Please be testing for perchlorate contamination. Thanks in advance.
Modusoperandi

Diamond Jim “Didn’t this belong to a Bond villain in one of the lesser Roger Moore movies?”
Are you mad?! Your question implies that there are “greater” Roger Moore Bond movies. The only differences between “the greatest” and “the least” Moore Bond movies was the worst ones, like Live and Let Die, had him driving an AMC, while his best ones contained serious political subtext, like The Man with the Golden Gun, which exposed to the world the dangers of solar power.
Anonymous

For the stoves section, I think he might have been inspired by the french designer stoves made by Focus Creations, especially the bathyscafocus :

http://www.stylepark.com/db-images/cms/focus/img/p279246_488_336-1.jpg
Scruff

Well, we seem to have blown his site out of the water…

I really want this. I love the look, especially if you put one of those Datamancer brass keyboards on it. Just needs James Mason playing the organ in the background.
christackett

Since the site is down, you can check out more pics (including the amazing mine fireplace!) on our post here: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/10/steampunk-worthy-furniture-naval-mines-mati-karmin.php
- llazy8
  
  THANK you! Sweet Enola Gay I want that baby carriage.
Anonymous

Surplus from different weapons and devices from different countries can tell you a lot about technological style. What surprises me about this is that soviet mines don’t seem significantly more brutal than their missiles.
orwellian

Goldfinger: “Noooo, Mr. Bond, I expect you to recycle!”
Anonymous

One word: Bioshock. This is all I can think of when I look at this.
- holtt
  
  Totally agree – Bioshock or maybe Fallout.
Anonymous

Plated in brass and the ultimate in Steampunk! Beautiful!
Anonymous

Oh, did we kill it? The link is offline….