Comments on: Junk-market door as a desk/table/streetdoor

By: Matthew Stoltz

Matthew Stoltz — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:28:00 +0000

Message me on facebook if you would like to have a custom design built to your needs and aesthetic taste.

By: Matthew Stoltz

Matthew Stoltz — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:26:00 +0000

I’m a custom builder / designer and I came across this a few weeks ago.
I am building a couple different prototypes of a similar design for different customers who fell in love with this desk. I will be using only salvaged and FSC-certified woods (extremely difficult finding vintage doors of the right size). If anybody is interested, message me on facebook: Matthew Stoltz, Stanford c/o 2008

By: Madzia

Madzia — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:34:00 +0000

Me too. Yashicamat. Love it to bits, even though I keep forgetting to mark whether it’s full or empty.

By: Anselm

Anselm — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:29:00 +0000

I’ve often used a door laid across two file cabinets as a desk. Done cheaply, it’s ugly but modular furniture, which is great for college dorms. Done well (custom-sized shelves or deep cabinets in matching wood, etc) it can be an attractive way to upcycle desks. And before desks came standard with cable holes in them, the hole where the doorknob was could be put to great use by computer or lamp cables.

By: Anselm

Anselm — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:26:00 +0000

Ah, thanks, now I see it! Wasn’t finding the Super 8 :)

By: Culturedropout

Culturedropout — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:24:00 +0000

It’s all good fun until somebody gets their lamp slammed in the door. (And yeah – just looking at those hinges makes my elbows hurt.) But it’s really pretty…

By: whowantstoast

whowantstoast — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:24:00 +0000

I still use one today.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:35:00 +0000

That wood is gorgeous, which is what makes this so nice.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:34:00 +0000

I saw this a couple weeks ago, I think, and like many things you come across on Tumblr it looks fantastic (great aesthetic sensibility) but doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

As a multifunctional item it’s massively impractical. The camera would get crushed and the lamp destroyed and your stuff would fall out of the pockets if you decided to flip it down to have dinner and were a bit absent-minded, and if you just leave it in desk mode all the time then you’ve got a big gaping hole where more desk would be greatly desired.

But – it’s still cool and if nothing else it does inspire one to make tables out of doors. Although I suspect the junk-market door supply outside of Italy is not quite so charming.

By: cbt22

cbt22 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:25:00 +0000

My husband made something similar, but his is made from a solid door without the shutters/hinges. He also took a second door and sawed it in half to make the legs, which I think is nicer than the steel frame here.

By: awjt

awjt — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:09:00 +0000

Neat, but I’d constantly hwang my elbows on the hinges sticking out on my side of the desk.

By: Matthew Simmons

Matthew Simmons — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:06:00 +0000

Hey sillypants thats not a super-8 camera thats a twin lens reflex medium format camera. Probably a rolleiflex or some similar brand. Unlike super 8 film cameras, many people still use the old twin lens reflex for its high image quality (120mm film size) and the lack of an intrusively loud mirror slap you get from an SLR.

By: toyg

toyg — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:53:00 +0000

Very nice concept… with a bit of refinement, I’d buy it.
For one, I’d really want it to have actual storage space underneath — I can see stuff flying out of those pockets every time you close it.

By: peterkvt80

peterkvt80 — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:41:00 +0000

That isn’t a Super-8 cine camera lurking there. It is a twin lens reflex camera for stills photography. I’m old enough to remember seeing people use these.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:22:00 +0000

Where does the lamp go?