More furniture made from the Coney Island boardwalk

I previously wrote about Olde Good Things making furniture from ipe wood salvaged from the Coney Island boardwalk.  As mentioned in Gothamist today, Uhuru Design is also making furniture from salvaged wood from the boardwalk.

Check out Uhuru's "Cyclone Lounger," inspired by the Cyclone, the famous wooden roller coaster at Coney Island.  My favorite part of this lounge chair is the stylized metal base, made to look like the wooden truss of the roller coaster:

Uhuru's Coney Island Line of furniture will be launching at the Bklyn Designs 2010 design conference this weekend.

Furniture made from salvaged pieces of the Coney Island boardwalk

The Coney Island Boardwalk with wood (from Wikipedia)

For some strange and stupid reason, the City of New York has decided to replace the wooden planks of the Coney Island boardwalk with concrete.  Well, the reason given is that concrete will hold up longer, but that's not a very aesthetically pleasing reason.

Luckily, it seems that some of the wood from the boardwalk is being put to good use.  Olde Good Things has been salvaging the ipe wood that constituted the boardwalk and repurposing it as furniture, such as this handsome and sturdy mission style table: