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By Never teh BrideI’ve recently been reading The Book of Games: Strategy, Tactics & History by Jack Botermans. It’s a look at international games and their place in culture and history, from The Royal Game of Ur, one of the oldest board games ever found, to the much more modern Mastermind. Naturally all that reading about games got me to thinking about games and furniture, which is how I found this super sweet set of Scrabble couches.
Crafted by Stephen Reed for employees in the London offices of Bloomberg financial services, it’s not only the couch cushions that, ahem, get into the game. The couches themselves are stylized to look like Scrabble tile racks, i.e., those easily upended wooden things where one hides one’s tiles.
I get the overall concept, but frankly I’m much more interested in the Scrabble tile pillows than I am in the Scrabble-racks-turned-seating. The look uncomfortable, at least where the back of the knee is concerned… and possibly also for shorter people, whose legs might not quite reach the floor.
You can steal this look with Scrabble tile pillows from Etsy seller Pillow Happy!
October 2nd, 2009 at 3:26 pm
THAT”S PERFECT!!! I have a friend who’s getting married in the spring who is a scrabble fiend. I think I know part of what’s getting gifted at her shower.
I can’t say as I’d want to spend that much on four pillow-less pillowcases, however I can’t say I’m *too* worried about that, I think that would be at most an afternoon of sewing (if I made the pillowcases from scratch).