Cover your left eye and look at the chart, please.  How well do you know your modern furniture design?  I see a Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, Lee West and more.  If you’ve got 20-20 design vision, this awesome poster by BlueAntStudio should be the perfect visual litmus.  Get it on a wall in your home for $50, and keep the eyes of your guests in check.  Here’s a good game: if they can name every chair on their first try, you buy them the same poster for their own… [notcot]

Buy: $50

We’re approaching 2001: A Space Odessy territory here. The ultra-trippy design of TreeTell combines the warm, organic look of a tree with the high-tech gear stashed in the hole–a message center with audio and video plus Internet access. It’s the sort of thing future scientists might install in long-haul spacecraft to keep people feeling connected to nature…or a product coming soon to a living room near you. We’re hoping this sort of thing catches on, but perhaps with some additional seating for those of us who like lumbar support. [YankoDesign]

Stanisalv Katz is behind this great office furniture rethink. The Spider Table is everything you need in a hip, happening office setup. Black and white usually gets tiled by less innovative brains, but this yin/yang approach is novel without resorting to cliche Eastern touches. Coming soon to an ultra-mod office space near you. [CribCandy]

The Orgy Sofa and Ottoman are worthy of inclusion here if for no other reason than the name alone, but we’re still trying to figure out the geometery of trying to make this live up to its name. How the hell are you supposed to make all those people fit on this thing comfortably? Perhaps its best not to take the name THAT literally. Maybe the couch is named after that goofy band that covered New Order’s Blue Monday all those years ago . . . design-wise, this is pretty eye-catching and the ottoman fitting nicely together into the main shape is a great touch.

Buy: $14,000

Scandinavian Design is a cornerstone in modern furniture design– and this next piece will show you exactly how they’ve remained on top of their industry. This desk obviously features a simple yet modern design. It comes as shown in a black stained ash veneer with a chrome leg. First, we love the single leg design– it makes for more legroom and a more ergonomic workspace. Beyond the standard frame are a few accessories which make this desk an ideal work space. The picture above shows one, the Titan File Pedestal. Not pictured is the Titan Lateral File, a bookcase available in a 3- and 5- shelf unit. Bundle the three together and you’ve got one hell of a home office.

Buy: $ 269

Andrew Weaving’s impressive book on Modernism (co-authored with Lisa Freedman) doesn’t just give you the low-down on Mid-Century, Pop, Post-Modern and other movements in modern design, you also get 200 amazing photographs and a list of the sites that are open to the public. Want to tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s home and studio in Oak Park Illinois? That’s just one of the many sites on Weaving’s list. From the early days in the Bauhaus studio and onward, this book is a treat for anyone who loves modernism.

Buy: $25.55

Tube Top Lamps by Pablo come in a variety of hip, transluscent colors that can be mixed and matched to accent any mod or retro decor. Once upon a time these were only available in white,which is a great stark look perfect for the minimalist Yoko Ono lover in you, but when you need color, these new models are just the thing. Place one all by itself on an end table or cluster them in a corner for a cheery look that grabs your attention.

Buy: $100 each.

What you’re looking at on that wall is not tile, stone, or wood facade. It’s leather. Yorkstreet Studio specializes in a variety of leather wall fashions that can add a completely original look to any bathroom, kitchen, bedroom…you name it. And the smell of quality leather showing up in unexpected places like a hallway or entertainment room would be just priceless, wouldn’t it? Not to mention that this is a made-in-USA product, so you’re also doing your part to support the economy while making a serious fashion statement. These tiles are made specifically to minimize on-site cutting, so be sure to have your layout and dimensions sorted out before ordering.

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The Italians know how to make simple-yet-elegant designs perfect for modern, minimalist, and similar interior decor schemes. The Sailor bed by Flou is a great example of how simple blocks of color and classic square shapes are combined to give this bed a modern edge without being excessive or showy. Our Italian leaves much to be desired, but the catalog copy for this seems to imply the design is inspired by the shape and color of an old grand piano. Whatever informed this, it’s certainly nice to look at.

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In this rotten economy of ours, you need to save up all the spare change you can get and never mind that so-called economic stimulus package that is headed our way. Sock some cash away from a rainy day with this wall-mounted bank, and pick your cash-out moment wisely. You’ll really have to break the glass to get at the silver, so make sure you’re well and truly desperate before you put the hammer down. The way things are going at the moment, you could have more money in this bank than you’ve got in your mutual funds by the time George W. leaves office.

Buy for approximately $20