There’s likely a reason that Hammacher Schlemmer’s product page for the Convertible Coffee Table doesn’t show any pictures of people using it. It would probably crick your spine into a Quasimodo-hunch within mere moments of springing it open.
The table sits innocently in your living room, its slightly too-tall shape providing a shiny brown surface, just like any other coffee-table. But when you need to scoff a TV dinner or get some work done on your notebook computer, the lid pops open and rises up like the lid-activated storage drawers in a toolbox. The birch-veneer and walnut-covered top pantographs 15-inches towards you and sits at a height of 31-inches, a makeshift desk that sits… Right in front of your face.
If you’re wondering, that’s too high. I sat on my sofa and measured. 31-inches is around my chest height, and I’m over six-two. In fact, this desk is higher than my actual desk. Moreover, it is higher than my desk was before I cut the legs down so I could use it comfortably (and yes, I have a proper adjustable chair).
If you’re looking for a coffee table, then, which will flip up and allow very tall people with high chairs to use it as a work-surface, then go ahead and spend the $200. If you’re planning on using this as a quick way to more comfortably do some work whilst lazing on the sofa, or to safely eat a snack, forget it. Unless you are Mr. Fantastic, or have the body proportions of a T-rex, you’ll be sweeping those Doritos directly off the table-top and letting them drop into your mouth.
The Convertible Coffee Table [Hammacher Schlemmer via Oh Gizmo!]
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