On a couch from Ferrari: how to make money on furniture from spare parts

In 2013, after graduating from the Physics Department of Moscow State University, Mikhail Karavaev got a job as an engineer in a telecommunications company. But he didn’t want to “work for an uncle”: he didn’t like to follow the orders of his boss, and he didn’t like the salary. At that time, he had been fond of cars for several years and watched what pieces of furniture are made from parts by craftsmen in Russia and abroad. In 2015, in the Top Gear program, Mikhail saw a table at the base of which was a car engine, and decided to try to make such a model, his friend Oleg Kalayev joined him.

The friends took the cylinder block as the basis (the basic engine part, the casing without entrails), they bought it for three thousand rubles. The lid was made of glass. The friends presented the resulting table to a friend Continue reading →