A Snooker Table with a Built-In Hidden Sofa Bed

This is such a cool idea. This is a sofa with a poo/snookerl table built into it, hide-a-bed style. What an ideal addition to your apartment or your house. Tthe couch is about 6 foot long and apparently, it’s quite popular in the UK where they’re fairly cheap.

A joint venture from Pierce Upholsterers and Accrington and Riley - makers of fine British pool tables, and this was produced in the 70’s. It’s made of a neutral brown dralon fabric and when opens it flips into a pool table with adjustable leveling feet to make it level. What a fantastic idea which was decades ahead of its time. It probably didn’t do too well because manufacturing it would’ve been costly without a computer/motion controlled assembly line. But with the advent of not only computers for design and manufacture, this piece could easily make resurgence. And why stop there? Imagine a sofa with built in ping pong table, air hockey table, poker table!

Currently for bid at eBay.UK at about $200 US but it’s sure to go well north of that.

Further Readings

• Sofa Transforms Into a Pool Table (neatorama.com)