These days you'd expect anyone with an anthropology degree and ID leanings to get a job with Nokia or frog; but Brooklyn-based Laurie Beckerman is keepin' it gangsta with good ol' handcarved furniture. Her Tete-a-Tete Rocker and Filing Tree (above) are patents pending;

Beckerman's latest creation, the Cobra Desk (just above), brings to mind an animal hated by another anthropologist we'll be seeing shortly.