These beautiful designer chairs depicted above are deceiving. They may be less suitable for your kitchen, and more suitable for your daughter’s Barbie kitchen. Each chair is a 1/12 scale model created to make these infinitely collectible items more accessible to a design fan on a more limited budget. The design of each chair focuses […]

These Hello Kitty Model Kits were designed by Stiletto Ninja, and they are absolutely bad ass. Although they claim to be a “model kit” I have my doubts — these kind of look like renderings. But really, who cares? If people didn’t lie on the internet what would be its point? Sharing actual, veritable information? […]

We’re somewhat addicted to the vinyl junk that Coarse is cooking up these days. That Jaws Loser piece last month was pretty amazing, and remember that False Friends figure they did in the beginning of this year? Well they’re back, only this time the False Friends are totally blacked out for their Blackout edition (fitting […]

I’m not sure what the bigger joke is, that someone would eat one of these and realize it’s actually a piece of plastic, or that some buffoon would willingly drop $270 for it ($295 with shipping). Japanese design/artist duo Paramodel simply combined a toy truck called “tomica” with a food model of sushi — like […]

The Machine Pistol 5, a beloved automatic weapon of government agencies around the world, is now available to children and adults alike. This MP5 paper gun kit from Gestalten includes everything you need to build your own rifle out of paper and a poster celebrating its awesomeness (I assume this is out of paper as […]

Props to UNICEF for these Child Soldier Toys — sure they look like those ubiquitous green plastic soldiers everyone grew up playing with (actually, do kids even play with those anymore?), but a closer look reveals they’re actually kids at play. It’s a clever and subversive way to bring attention to the global crisis (especially […]

I’ve got a few kids to buy Christmas gifts for this year and whilst stumbling around looking for something outside the Bratz-Bakugan-Hannah Montana junta I found these Lego Architecture sets and I became insanely jealous. Sure, I had that awesome castle set when I was a young’un, and of course copious space/moon sets (anybody out […]

Flipping through the pages of Uncle York’s website, I finally settled on the photo to accompany this post (you’re welcome) in addition to a movie idea I’m going to pitch to famed hipster photog Terry Richardson. I can trust that you, faithful LIAS reader, will not steal my idea worth boxoffice millions. Here it is…it’s […]