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Pinball Relics: Yesterday's Thrills,
​Tomorrow's Antiques — Made of Cardboard

A game becomes furniture.
A coin slot turned drawer


 Each table in the collection begins as a pinball machine , its stance, its angles, its unmistakable silhouette — then quietly becomes furniture. The playfield flattens into a tabletop. The legs steady into a base. And the coin slot, that small, hopeful mouth that once swallowed pocket change, survives as a discreet drawer for keys, letters, and small treasures. Push where you once dropped a coin, and something opens.
The games that never were. The machines behind the tables don't exist and never did.
Each was dreamed up in collaboration with AI: prompts, iterations, and happy accidents conjuring arcades from a past that only almost happened.
Those imagined machines were then translated by hand, in cardboard, into furniture.
The AI built the legend; human hands built the object.

Every joint, every drawer, every finish was made by hand and tested by human weight. Cardboard punishes imprecision — you cannot fake a clean fold. The collaboration is the idea: a machine imagines the past, a person gives it a body."

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