Altar Furniture is a Budapest based company that specializes in unique pieces inspired by now obsolescent technology. According to András Lacfi, who founded the company in 2013, Altar creates “artifacts [that] are places of fun, domestic worship ? a celebration of dedication, personality, boldness and a bit of nostalgia.? Lacfi and his partner Ern? Balogh […]The post Furniture Inspired by Retro Technology appeared first on Pursuitist.

Altar Furniture is a Budapest based company that specializes in unique pieces inspired by now obsolescent technology. According to András Lacfi, who founded the company in 2013, Altar creates “artifacts [that] are places of fun, domestic worship ? a celebration of dedication, personality, boldness and a bit of nostalgia.? Lacfi and his partner Ern? Balogh started by upcycling old pinball machines into coffee tables, most of which are interactive and lavishly decorated. The company embraces a somewhat camp aesthetic with their wildly colorful and fun pieces.In addition to their pinball tables, Altar has produced a number of tables designed to look like oversized cassettes. The cassettes range from classic albums to bootlegs, demos, and lovingly handmade mixes. If you have a favorite tape gathering dust in a box, some album that evokes a great deal of nostalgia, you could conceivably pass it along to Altar Furniture so that they could make a 1:10 scale copy of it. Conversion kits are available for each giant cassette, so that ...