Mixtape Coffee Tables Remix Retro Nostalgia & Vintage Furniture

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TAYBLES tap into our nostalgia for cassette tapes, a love of handcrafted wood furniture and a functional desire to have mood lighting close at hand.

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The Los Angeles company creates wooden tables, each shaped like a tape and sealed with clear epoxy. LED lights tucked into the pair of central holes add light and color to the room.

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The ‘tape’ part of the cassette turns out to conceal a secret, too: storage space for books, gadgets or, well, tapes, situated in the center of the empty table.

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The biggest difference between models (besides the great variety of woods and their associated hues) is, of course, the label, which can be customized to feature your favorite tunes, a hand-written list of songs or whatever you desire.

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Minimalist metal supports provide a likewise-vintage and non-distracting structural system to keep your tape table floating on air.

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See more in History of Tech or under Vintage & Retro. October, 2016.